Governor Brown Appoints Chief Deputy Anne Hwang as Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge
Posted by Federal Public Defender on December 7, 2018 in Press & Internal News
Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. today announced the appointment of Anne Hwang, the Chief Deputy with the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Central District of California, as a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge.
Anne Hwang, 42, of View Park-Windsor Hills, has been appointed to a judgeship in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Hwang has been chief deputy federal public defender in the Federal Public Defender’s Office, Central District of California since 2018, where she has served in several positions since 2006, including chief of the Los Angeles Trial Unit, supervising deputy federal public defender and deputy federal public defender. She was an associate at Irell and Manella LLP from 2002 to 2006. Hwang earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Southern California School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University. She fills the vacancy created by the conversion of a court commissioner position on October 25, 2018. Hwang is a Democrat.
Read the official announcement from the California Governor’s office here.
Judge Hwang joins an impressive list of former FPD-CDCA alumni who have become judges, including:
| Maria E. Stratton | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Dennis J. Landin | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Jesus G. Bernal | United States District Judge |
| Paul L. Abrams | United States District Judge |
| Stephen J. Hillman | United States Magistrate Judge |
| K. Kiya Kato | United States Magistrate Judge |
| Alicia Y. Blanco | Los Angeles County Commissioner |
| Michael D. Abzug | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| James R. Dunn | Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge |
| Michael Garcia | 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 |
| 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 |