Altadena Attorney Appointed LA Superior Court Judge

LOS ANGELES, CA — Gov. Jerry Brown Jr. Thursday announced the appointment of 10 new Los Angeles County Superior Court judges.

The new judges are:

• Brett Bianco, 49, of Altadena, who has served as court counsel at the Los Angeles County Superior Court since 2001;
• Rashida A. Adams, 39, of Pasadena, who has served as a senior appellate court attorney at the Second District Court of Appeal since 2009;
• Wesley L. Hsu, 46, of Pasadena, has served as Deputy U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles since 2017, where he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney from 2000 to 2017;
• Kerry L. White, 60, of Pasadena, has served as a head deputy district attorney at the District Attorney's Office since 2003, where he was a deputy district attorney from 1984 to 2003;
• Bruce E. Brodie, 66, of Los Angeles, who has been chief deputy alternate public defender in the Alternate Public Defender's Office since 2012, where he has served in several positions since 1994;
• Steve Cochran, 60, of Los Angeles, has been a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman since 1991;
• Nicole M. Heeseman, 44, of San Clemente, has served as a commissioner at the Superior Court since 2014, where she was managing research attorney from 2006 to 2014;
• Martha A. Matthews, 54, of Los Angeles, has been directing attorney of the Children's Rights Project at Public Counsel since 2011;
• Victor G. Viramontes, 44, of Whittier, has been national senior counsel at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund since 2010, where he was a staff attorney from 2001 to 2005; and
• Amy C. Yerkey, 43, of Long Beach, who served as a commissioner at the Superior Court since 2015 and as an administrative law judge at the U.S. Social Security Administration in 2015 and at the California Office of Administrative Hearings from 2008 to 2015.

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