Governor Brown Appoints Stephanie Thornton-Harris as San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge
Posted by Federal Public Defender on June 1, 2018 in Press & Internal News
Deputy Federal Public Defender Stephanie Thornton-Harris
Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. today announced the appointment of Stephanie Thornton-Harris, an attorney with the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Central District of California, as a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge.
Stephanie E. Thornton-Harris, 54, of Pasadena, has been appointed to a judgeship in the San Bernardino County Superior Court. Thornton-Harris has served as a deputy federal public defender in the Federal Public Defender’s Office, Central District of California since 2012. She served as a bench officer at the San Bernardino County Superior Court from 2007 to 2011, where she was a juvenile hearing officer from 1999 to 2001. Thornton-Harris served as a judge pro tem at the San Bernardino County Superior Court and the Office of Administrative Hearings from 2003 to 2007 and was an administrative law judge at the Office of Administrative Hearings from 2001 to 2002. She earned a Juris Doctor degree from the Northwestern University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University. She fills the vacancy of a new position created on September 18, 2017. Thornton-Harris is a Democrat.
Read the official announcement from the California Governor’s office here.
Judge Thornton-Harris 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 |