Halim Dhanidina

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7. Sunita Sohrabji. "Brown Appoints California's First Muslim Superior Court Judge". indiawest.com. Retrieved 19 October 2015. The Chicago-born, Evanston, Ill.,-raised Dhanidina, whose Gujarati parents Lutaf and Mali emigrated from Tanzania to the U.S., in 1960, said that his 14 years as a deputy district attorney and being in court nearly every day have made him intimately familiar with how a courtroom works, including the rules that govern a trial.
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Halim Dhanidina
Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Second District
In office 2018 –March 31, 2021