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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 .
The District of Columbia Courts, Public Defender Service, and Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency Act of 2014 (H.R. 4185) is a bill that would make changes to the District of Columbia Official Code that governs the D.C. Courts system. [citation needed]
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).
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The public defender system is not the only form of indigent defense program offered in the United States. Besides the public defender system, there are two other main alternatives: assigned-counsel system and contract-service system. [3] Assigned-counsel is where the court appoints a private lawyer to defend someone who cannot afford to pay. [3]
Actor Danny Masterson arrives at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles on May 31, 2023, with then-wife Bijou Phillips for his retrial for allegedly raping three women ...
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 was also the first Latino American female to serve as a Judge of the Superior Court of Santa ...