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Originally known as the Criminal Courts Building, [4] in 2002 it was renamed the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, after Clara S. Foltz, the first female lawyer on the West Coast of the United States (and also the first person to propose the creation of a public defender's office).
Clara Shortridge Foltz (July 16, 1849 – September 2, 1934) was an American lawyer, the first female lawyer on the West Coast, and the pioneer of the idea of the public defender. The Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles was renamed after her in 2002, and is now known as the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center .
At the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, during a "Congress" of the Board of Lady Managers, Clara Shortridge Foltz made her first highly public presentation of her idea of the public defender. [3] Then, due to Foltz's persistent efforts over a period of several years, Los Angeles County established a public defender office in 1913 under its county ...
Ricci Sergienko, center, and Ms. Italy, right, head into the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles in May. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, where Ashley Butts, whose father, James Butts, is the mayor of Inglewood, was convicted Monday of assault and conspiring to commit assault. (Myung J ...
On Oct. 23, Warren showed up at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles to be arraigned in the gun possession case for which he first received a GPS device. He ...
Eventually the Superior Court's jurisdiction came to include all civil, felony criminal, family law, juvenile delinquency and dependency, and probate cases in the county. Throughout its history the Superior Court had had a close relation with the county's many Municipal Courts.
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