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Marilyn Pestarino Zecher (1957): [267] First female judge in Santa Clara County, California; Rose Bird (1966): [40] First female Deputy Public Defender for Santa Clara County, California (1967-1974) Virginia Mae Days (1934): [268] [269] First Latino American female to serve as a Judge of the Santa Clara County Municipal Court (1981-1984). She ...
Rose Elizabeth Bird (November 2, 1936 – December 4, 1999) was the 25th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. She was the first female law clerk of the Nevada Supreme Court, the first female deputy public defender in Santa Clara County, the first woman to serve in the California State Cabinet, and the first female Chief Justice of California.
Her goal of seeing this idea come to fruition saw success when the state of California would see the first public defender office of the United States open in the city of Los Angeles in 1913. [21] Following the creation of the Los Angeles Public Defender office, the public defender program and idea spread throughout the nation. [19]
After Santa Clara County was formed on April 25, 1851, a contest was held to select a design for a new building worthy of being a state capitol in 1860. The winning entry, designed by Levi Goodrich, was constructed from 1866 to 1868 at a cost of US$173,737.96 (equivalent to $4,100,000 in 2024). [2] The courthouse was destroyed by fire in May 1931.
Judy Clare Clarke (born 1952) is an American criminal defense attorney who has represented several high-profile defendants such as Ted Kaczynski, Eric Rudolph, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Joseph Edward Duncan, Zacarias Moussaoui, Jared Lee Loughner, Robert Gregory Bowers, Burford Furrow, Lisa Montgomery and Susan Smith.
After law school, he started working in the San Diego County Public Defender's office in 1995. [3] During his time in San Diego, Mr. Garcia was recruited to the Alternate Public Defender and then recruited to the Multiple Conflicts/Major Cases office as the youngest lawyer to join that homicide and capital litigation team.
He received his B.S. Degree from Santa Clara University and J.D. degree from Santa Clara University School of Law. [3] [4] After graduation, he engaged in private practice with Pasquinelli & Panelli. [5] In 1972, Panelli was named a judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court, serving until 1983. He was appointed as Associate Justice, First ...
Laurie Smith (born June 21, 1952) was the first female county sheriff in the history of California. She was the 28th sheriff of Santa Clara County, California, serving from 1998 until her early retirement in 2022, before the end of jury deliberations in her civil trial.