Stephen Lawrence Cooley is an American politician and prosecutor. He was the Los Angeles County District Attorney from 2000 to 2012. Cooley was re-elected in 2004 and again in 2008.
Robert Walker Kenny, 21st Attorney General of California (1943-1947), was "a colorful figure in state politics for many years" who in 1946 ran unsuccessfully against Earl Warren for state governor.
William Francis Fitzgerald was an American jurist who served on the Federal bench as an associate justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, as well as at the state level as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court. Other positions he held include California Attorney General and judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County.
Douglas Lyman Edmonds was an American jurist, serving on the Supreme Court of California and the United Nations' International Law Commission.
David Alan Berger is a deputy district attorney for the County of Los Angeles, California. He is also the trial advocacy team coach, adjunct professor and the Alternate Sentencing Court ("ASC") designee for the Airport Branch of the District Attorney's Office.
James Edward Rogan is an American judge of the Superior Court of California, adjunct law professor, author and former Member of the United States House of Representatives from California. He also formerly served as United States Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, California State Assembly Majority Leader, a judge of the California Municipal Court, a gang murder prosecutor with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office and a civil litigator in private law practice. In January 2007, President George W. Bush nominated Rogan to be a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Central District of California, but the Senate failed to act on the nomination before the expiration of Bush's term in office.
Anthony Joseph Rackauckas Jr. is a former District Attorney of Orange County, California and a former Superior Court judge.
Pennsylvania held statewide municipal elections on November 3, 2009, to fill a number of judicial positions and to allow judicial retention votes. The necessary primary elections were held on May 19, 2009.
Robert Gary Klausner is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
The Superior Court of Los Angeles County is the California Superior Court located in Los Angeles County. It is the largest single unified trial court in the United States.
Laurence James Rittenband was an American judge. He was a judge on the Superior Court of Los Angeles County in California.
Jerold A. Krieger was a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court known for his work fighting for civil rights for gays, minorities and the disadvantaged. As an openly gay judge, he served as Chairperson of the Sexual Orientation Fairness Subcommittee of the California Judicial Council's Access and Fairness Advisory Committee. He was a co-founder of the world's first gay and lesbian synagogue. He served on the 2nd District Court of Appeal by special temporary appointment, and he hoped for a permanent post on that court.
The Judiciary of California or the Judicial Branch of California is defined under the California Constitution as holding the judicial power of the state of California which is vested in the Supreme Court, the Courts of Appeal and the Superior Courts. The judiciary has a hierarchical structure with the California Supreme Court at the top, California Courts of Appeal as the primary appellate courts, and the California Superior Courts as the primary trial courts.
Frank H. Howard was an American attorney who was president of the Los Angeles County Board of Education and a member of the Los Angeles City Library Board and a trustee of the county law library. He represented the city librarian when she sued a Methodist minister for slander over a prayer he had recited. Howard disappeared without a trace in 1896.
Leslie Randall Hewitt was an American journalist, lawyer, judge and politician. He wrote for the Los Angeles Express before reading law. From 1906 to 1910, Hewitt was Los Angeles City Attorney. He later served one term in the California State Senate, and between 1913 and 1924, served as a judge in the California superior court system.
John Wesley Shenk was a city attorney in Los Angeles, California, a Superior Court judge and a member of the California Supreme Court.
Jess E. Stephens was an American attorney who was noted for his legal work on behalf of an important traffic tunnel project in that city and for a union railroad station there, as well as his handling of claims against the city after the collapse of the Saint Francis Dam. He later became a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Louis Harry Burke was an American lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from November 20, 1964, to November 30, 1974.
