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This is a list of notable people who have held the role of district attorney in California. Frank M. Angellotti [1]
State flag of California Location of California on the U.S. map. This is a list of notable people from the U.S. state of California. It includes people who were born/raised in, lived in, or spent portions of their lives in California, or for whom California is a significant part of their identity.
Alta California, Viceroyalty of New Spain (now California, U.S.) politician, journalist three-term Mayor of Los Angeles [12] Juan Bautista Alvarado: 1809–1882 Monterey, Alta California, Viceroyalty of New Spain (now California, U.S.) politician served as Governor of Alta California from 1837 to 1842 [13] José María Alviso: 1798–1853
John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird) (c. 1840s): [3] First Native American lawyer in California; R.C.O. Benjamin (1884): [4] [5] First African American male lawyer in California; Hong Yen Chang (1888): [6] First Chinese American male lawyer in the U.S., but was denied the right to practice law in California [7]
Gladys Towles Root (September 9, 1905 – December 21, 1982) was a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles. Root specialized in sexual assault and murder cases, partly because those were the only clients available to a woman attorney at the time and partly because few other lawyers wanted to defend them. [1]
The California Department of Justice is a statewide investigative law enforcement agency and legal department of the California executive branch under the elected leadership of the Attorney General of California (AG) which carries out complex criminal and civil investigations, prosecutions, and other legal services throughout the US State of California. [1]
Rodney Melville – California judge, notable for presiding over the People v. Jackson case; Thomas Mesereau (1979) – criminal defense attorney with celebrity client list, including Michael Jackson and Robert Blake; Linda G. Mills (1983) – 17th president of New York University; Alexander Morrison (1881) – founder of Morrison & Foerster
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in California.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.