Governor Brown Appoints Six to
Los Angeles County Superior
Court
SACRAMENTO
– Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Hector E.
Gutierrez, Colin P. Leis, Lillian Vega Jacobs, Rob B. Villeza, Shirley K.
Watkins and Michael E. Whitaker to judgeships in the Los Angeles County
Superior Court.
Leis,
53, of La Cañada, has served as senior judicial attorney at the Second District
Court of Appeal since 1994. He was a litigation associate at O'Melveny and
Myers LLP from 1989 to 1994. Leis earned a Juris Doctor degree from the
University of Southern California, Gould School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts
degree from Harvard University. He fills the vacancy created by the conversion
of a court commissioner position on August 12, 2013. Leis is a Democrat.
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