Wednesday, December 31, 2025
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2025 IN REVIEW
END OF THE YEAR:
Jenkins Retires From California Supreme Court…Gilbert, Currey, Ashmann-Gerst, Grimes, Leave Court of Appeal; Zukin Is Elevated to Presiding Justice, Hanasono, Tamzarian, Scherb Join Court…Tung Confirmed as Ninth Circuit Judge…Ninth Circuit Senior Judges Ikuta, Kleinfeld Die
Appointments
(Persons below are identified by their positions at the time of the nomination/appointment. Federal nominees listed were confirmed by the Senate and state appellate court nominees were confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments.)
Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Private practitioner Eric Tung
California Court of Appeal, Second District
Div. Three
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Hanasono, as associate justice
Div. Four
Court of Appeal Justice Helen Zukin, as presiding justice
Los Angeles Superior Court Judges Armen Tamzarian, as associate justice
Div. Eight
California Supreme Court chambers attorney Matthew A. Scherb
Los Angeles Superior Court
Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Lara Bazán
Faye Chen Barnouw, assistant regional director, Federal Trade Commission
Jill Casselman, assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California
Redondo Beach City Prosecutor Melanie Chavira
Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Syna Dennis
Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Kimberly Dotson
Erin Donovan, partner at Musick, Peeler & Garrett
Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Sonia Dujan
Jonathan Eisenman, assistant general counsel, City of Los Angeles Department of Water & Power
Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Sarah J. Ellenberg
William Forman, partner at Winston & Strawn LLP
David Garcia, supervising attorney at Inner City Law Center
Hoa Hoang, lead attorney for Div. Seven of this district’s Court of Appeal
Assistant U.S. Attorney Maria Jhai of the Central District of California
Mike Madokoro, managing partner, Bowman and Brooke LLP
Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Sumako McCallum
Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Seza Mikikian
Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Karine Mkrtchyan
Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner James Montgomery Jr.
Phu Nguyen, court counsel for Los Angeles Superior Court
Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Louis Parise
Erin Reed, senior appellate attorney, this district’s Court of Appeal
Brenda C. Robinson, senior attorney at the Children’s Law Center of California
Deputy Attorney General William Shin
former Immigration Judge Afsaneh Ashley Tabaddor
Helen Yang, partner, Squire Patton Boggs
Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Jacob Yim
Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Alan Z. Yudkowsky i
Deaths
Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Senior Judge Sandra S. Ikuta (Dec. 7)
Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Senior Judge Andrew Jay Kleinfeld (Nov. 28)
Michel Meyer, 2017-18 president, Los Angeles County Bar Association (March 22)
retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Thomas Francis Nuss (Jan. 14)
attorney/composer Selma Moidel Smith (July 25)
probate practitioner John D. Taylor, 1978-79 president, Los Angeles County Bar Association (April 12) e
Disciplinary Actions
Los Angeles Superior Court
public admonishments
Debra R. Archuleta
James A. Kaddo, retired
Daviann L. Mitchell
Enrique Monguia
Retirements
California Supreme Court
Justice Martin J. Jenkins
California Court of Appeal, Second District
Div. Two
Justice Judith Ashmann-Gerst
Div. Four
Presiding Justice Brian Currey
Div. Six
Presiding Justice Arthur Gilbert
Div. Eight
Justice Elizabeth A. Grimes e
Los Angeles Superior Court
(based on official retirement dates)
Richard Bloom
Stephanie M. Bowick
Juan Carlos Dominguez
Thomas Falls
Daniel B. Feldstern
Kenneth R. Freeman
John J. Kralik
Sanjay T. Kumar
Jacqueline Lewis
Ana Maria Luna
Patrick T. Madden
Scott T. Millington
Stuart M. Rice
Shellie Samuels
Dorothy L. Shubin
Robin Miller Sloan
Terry Lee Smerling
Douglas W. Stern
Patricia J. Titus
Anthony Trendacosta
Fumiko Hachiya Wasserman
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