Governor Newsom Appoints Patricia A. Young as Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge
Posted by Federal Public Defender CDCA on November 29, 2021 in Press & Internal News
Supervising Deputy Federal Public Defender Patricia A. Young
Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the appointment of Patricia A. Young, a supervising attorney with the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Central District of California, as Los Angeles County Superior Court judge.
Patricia A. Young, 42, of Los Angeles, has been appointed to serve as a Judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Young has been a Supervising Deputy Federal Public Defender at the Office of the Federal Public Defender, Central District of California since 2014, where she has served as a Deputy Federal Public Defender since 2009. Young was an Associate at Latham & Watkins LLP from 2005 to 2009. She served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Keith P. Ellison at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas from 2004 to 2005. Young earned a Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School. She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Ramona G. See. Young is a Democrat.
Read the official announcement from the California Governor’s office here.
Judge Young 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 |