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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 Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center (formerly known as the Criminal Courts Building) is the county criminal courthouse in the Civic Center neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
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 ...
Danny Masterson arrives at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles on May 31, 2023. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
FILE - Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Oct. 4 2022. A Los Angeles judge is scheduled to ...
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 ...
Clara Shortridge Foltz (1878): [2] First female lawyer in Santa Clara County, California Isabel Charles: [ 234 ] [ 265 ] First female Justice of the Peace in Santa Clara County, California (1917) Miriam E. Wolff (1940): [ 266 ] First female appointed as a municipal court judge in Santa Clara County, California (1975)
More than 20 relatives stood outside the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, urging the Los Angeles County district attorney's office to resentence the brothers, and for the public to ...