Governor Brown Appoints Ashfaq (Ron) Chowdhury as Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge
Posted by Federal Public Defender on February 27, 2018 in Press & Internal News
Deputy Federal Public Defender Ron Chowdhury
Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. today announced the appointment of Ashfaq (Ron) Chowdhury, an attorney with the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Central District of California, as a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge.
Ashfaq (Ron) G. Chowdhury, 43, of Los Angeles, has been appointed to a judgeship in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Chowdhury has served as a deputy federal public defender at the Office of the Federal Public Defender, Central District of California since 2010. He was an associate at Cole Pedroza LLP from 2008 to 2010, at Munger, Tolles and Olson LLP from 2005 to 2008 and at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison LLP from 2003 to 2005. Chowdhury served as a law clerk for the Honorable Frederic Block at the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York from 2001 to 2003 and for the Honorable Richard N. Palmer at the Connecticut Supreme Court from 2000 to 2001. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College. He fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Lloyd M. Nash. Chowdhury is a Democrat.
Read the official announcement from the California Governor’s office here.
Judges Chowdhury joins an impressive list of former FPD-CDCA alumni who have become judges, including:
| Rudolph Diaz | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Michael L. Stern | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Drew E. Edwards | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Teresa Sanchez-Gordin | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Maria E. Stratton | Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal |
| Dennis J. Landin | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| John P. Martin | Administrative Law Judge |
| Denise Meyer | Administrative Law Judge |
| Olivia W. Karlin | Administrative Law Judge |
| Jesus G. Bernal | United States District Judge |
| Paul L. Abrams | United States Magistrate Judge |
| Stephen J. Hillman | United States Magistrate Judge |
| Brian Q. Robbins | United States Magistrate Judge |
| Victor B. Kenton | United States Magistrate Judge |
| Oswaldo Parada | United States Magistrate Judge |
| K. Kiya Kato | United States District Judge |
| Alicia Y. Blanco | Los Angeles County Commissioner |
| Steve Cochran | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Michael D. Abzug | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Georgina Rizk | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| James R. Dunn | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Michael Garcia | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Kerry Bensinger | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Yolanda Orozco | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Elizabeth Macias | Orange County Superior Court Judge |
| Firdaus Dordi | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Ashfaq (Ron) Chowdhury | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Stephanie Thornton-Harris | San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge |
| Christopher Dybwad | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Emily Garcia Uhrig | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Mary E. Kelly | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Anne Hwang | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Pedro Castillo | United States Magistrate Judge |
| Alicia Y. Blanco | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Ronald O. Kaye | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Margo Rocconi | United States Magistrate Judge |
| Patricia A. Young | Los Angeles Superior Court Judge |
| Gia Kim | Los Angeles Superior Court Judge |
| Brianna Fuller Mircheff | United States Magistrate Judge |
| David Wasserman | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Gary Rowe | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Michael Weinstein | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |