Governor Newsom Appoints Gia Kim as Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge
Posted by Federal Public Defender CDCA on June 3, 2022 in Press & Internal News
Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the appointment of Gia Kim, a Deputy Federal Public Defender with the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Central District of California, as Los Angeles County Superior Court judge.
Gia Kim, 48, of Los Angeles, has been appointed to serve as a Judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. She has served as a Deputy Federal Public Defender at the Federal Public Defender’s Office, Central District of California since 2008, where she worked as a Research and Writing Attorney from 2007 to 2008. She worked at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as an Associate from 2006 to 2007, at Yale Law School as an Academic Fellow from 2005 to 2006, and for Judge William A. Fletcher at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as a Law Clerk from 2004 to 2005. Kim earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley. She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Rolf M. Treu. Kim is a Democrat.
Read the official announcement from the California Governor’s office here.
Judge Kim 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 |