Corrupt Judge Kathryn Doi Todd

Corrupt Judge Kathryn Doi Todd #47691

Admitted Los Angeles January 1971

Kathryn Doi Todd was a judge on the Second District, Division Two of the California Courts of Appeal. She was appointed to this position by former Governor Davis on August 1, 2000. She was retained by the November 5, 2002 and the January 6, 2003 elections. Todd retired from the court on January 22, 2013 after 35 years in judicial service.

When she was appointed to the Los Angeles Municipal Court in 1978, she was the first Asian-American female judge in the country.

Education
Justice Todd graduated with a history degree from Stanford University in 1963 and went on to graduate from Loyola Law School in 1970.
Career

Justice Todd began her legal career with a general civil practice in Los Angeles. She was appointed to the Los Angeles Municipal Court by former Governor Brown in 1978. In 1981, she was appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court.

In 1978, Governor Jerry Brown appointed her to the Los Angeles County Municipal Court, making her the first female Asian American judge in the United States. In 1981, Brown elevated Todd to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, a position she would hold until when Brown’s former chief of staff, Governor Gray Davis, appointed her to the California Second District Court of Appeal, Division Two as of August 18, 2000. Doi retired from the bench in January 2013.

Preceded by John Zebrowski
Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Two
2000–2013

Kathryn Doi Todd Retires From Court of Appeal

January 23, 2013 Justice Kathryn Doi Todd of this district’s Court of Appeal, Div. Two retired yesterday after 35 years in judicial office, including more than 12 years on the Court of Appeal.

Doi Todd, 71, became the first Asian-American woman judge in the country when Gov. Jerry Brown appointed her to the Los Angeles Municipal Court in 1978, during his first term. Brown now gets to name her successor, who would be his first appointment to the state’s largest appellate court.

The jurist said in a statement that “[i]t was difficult to finally decide to retire, but I am looking forward to the next phase of my life.” The statement did not explain what her future plans were, and a MetNews phone call to her chambers was not returned.

In 1981, Governor Brown appointed her to the Los Angeles Superior Court where she served as presiding judge of the Juvenile Court from 1988 to 1989. She was appointed to the Court of Appeal by Governor Gray Davis in 2000.

The future justice and her family were interned at camps in Wyoming and at Tule Lake, Calif., along with other persons of Japanese origin, during World War II. She returned to Los Angeles after the war, graduating from Los Angeles High School in 1959.

She graduated from Stanford University in 1963 with a degree in history, and then attended Loyola Law School on an academic scholarship, graduating with honors in 1970.

She established a civil practice in Los Angeles on her own, and later formed a partnership with her brother, David I. Doi—later a Los Angeles Superior Court judge—prior to being appointed to the bench.

Brown elevated her to the Superior Court in 1981, and she served as presiding juvenile court judge from 1988 to 1989. Then-Gov. Gray Davis elevated her to the Court of Appeal in 2000.

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