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The State Bar's predecessor was a voluntary state bar association known as the California Bar Association. [8]: xiii The leader of the effort to establish an integrated (official) bar was Judge Jeremiah F. Sullivan, who first proposed the concept at the California Bar Association's Santa Barbara convention in September 1917, and provided the California Bar Association with a copy of a Quebec ...
This is a list of the first minority male lawyer(s) and judge(s) in California.It includes the year in which the men were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are other distinctions such as the first minority men in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
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.
The State Bar Court judges are nominated by a variety of individuals and bodies. Two of its five hearing judges are appointed by the California Supreme Court, and the remaining three are each selected by the Governor, Speaker of the Assembly and Senate Committee on Rules in turn; these judges constitute the Hearing Department, which is the trial level of the State Bar Court. [3]
You Chung Hong (Chinese: 洪耀宗; pinyin: Hóng Yàozōng; May 4, 1898 – November 8, 1977) was an American attorney and community leader who was the second Chinese American lawyer admitted to practice law in the state of California, having passed the bar examination in 1923 [1] before he became the first Chinese American graduate of the University of Southern California Law School.
The California Lawyers Association (CLA) is a statewide, voluntary bar association for California legal professionals, headquartered in Sacramento.. CLA was established in 2018, as result of Senate Bill 36., [1] which separated the voluntary educational, associational and advocacy activities for lawyers in the state of California from the regulation of the legal profession, resulting in the ...
Eleanor Oducayen Nisperos is California’s first Filipina American female lawyer. [1]She completed her undergraduate education at the University of Hawaii, and earned her law degree in 1971 from Boalt Hall University of California, Berkeley.
Nathan Joseph Hochman [1] (born November 26, 1963) [2] is an American attorney, who has served as the District Attorney of Los Angeles County since December 3, 2024. [3] Hochman is a former federal prosecutor and Assistant U.S. Attorney General.