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Carl Metoyer (1953): [133] First African American male to serve as the President of the Alameda County Bar Association (1970) Ming Chin (1967): [134] First Asian American male to serve as the President of the Alameda County Bar Association (c. 1987) Ken M. Kawaichi: [135] [136] First Asian American male judge in Alameda County, California (1980)
Ellen James (1970): [175] First female Judge of the Mt. Diablo Judicial District (Contra Costa County, California; 1976) Patricia McKinley (1975): [176] First African American female judge in Contra Costa County, California (1982) Barbara Zuñiga (1976): [176] First Hispanic American female judge in Contra Costa County, California (1985) [177]
Samuel Conti was a Superior court judge in the Contra Costa County from 1968 to 1970, when he was appointed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. [ 6 ] On November 11, 2003, just days before he left office after an unprecedented recall vote, California Governor Gray Davis appointed Barry Goode to serve on ...
Diana Becton, also known as Diana Becton Smith [1] (born August 16, 1951), is a former trial judge and is currently both the first woman and first African American to be elected district attorney in the history of Contra Costa County in California.
In 1984, Ford was hired by WCBS-TV as its legal commentator and joined Courtroom Television Network upon its launch on July 1, 1991. He moved to NBC News in 1994 as the chief legal correspondent and succeeded Mike Schneider as the co-anchor with Giselle Fernandez of the network's morning show Weekend Today in May 1995.
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He has served on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors in Contra Costa County, California since 1998 and was re-elected three times. He served as chair in 2002, 2006 and 2010. John Gioia is a Democrat. Contra Costa supervisorial seats are non-partisan.
Prior to being elected district attorney for Contra Costa County, Peterson served on the city council of Concord, California.He was first elected to the Concord City Council in 1995, and served on the council until 2010, when he resigned to take over as district attorney for Contra Costa County.