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Hsu, Almadani to Be Named to U.S. District Court
By a MetNews Staff Writer
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WESLEY HSU Superior Court judge |
MONICA RAMIREZ ALMADANI CEO/Public Counsel |
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Wesley Hsu and Mónica Ramírez Almadani, president of Public Counsel, the largest pro bono public interest law firm in the nation, will be named to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, President Joseph Biden announced yesterday.
He also said he will nominate San Diego Superior Court Judge Marian Gaston to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
A White House press release says that the latest choices “continue to fulfill the President’s promise to ensure that the nation’s courts reflect the diversity that is one of our greatest assets as a country—both in terms of personal and professional backgrounds.”
Hsu, whose law degree is from Yale, has served on the Los Angeles Superior Court since 2017. He was an assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California from 2000-17 and was an associate at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP from 1997 to 2000.
He served as a law clerk for District Court Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer of the Central District of California (now deceased) from 1996-97.
Almadani, who earned her law degree at Harvard, has been at her present post since 2021. She was a visiting assistant clinical professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law from 2019-21, a special Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP from 2017-19, and a special assistant attorney general in California from 2015 to 2017.
From 2004 to 2005, she served as a law clerk for Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Warren J. Ferguson (now deceased).
Gaston has held her judgeship since 2015. From 1996 to 2015, she was a San Diego deputy public defender.
Her law degree is from the University of California, Berkeley.
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