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United States. Branch/service. United States Marine Corps [1] Years of service. 1963–1966 (active duty) 1966–1969 [1] (reserve) [1] Rank. Sergeant [1] Otis Dalino Wright II (born July 31, 1944) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
1981 or 1982 (age 41–42) [1] Burma [2] Political party. Democratic. Education. University of California, Berkeley BA, JD. Bryant Y Yang (born 1981/1982) is an American state court judge who serves as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court. [3]
The Superior Court operates 37 courthouses throughout the county. Currently, the Presiding Judge is Samantha P. Jessner and David W. Slayton is the Executive Officer/Clerk of Court. They, together with 583 judicial officers and 4,800 employees, operate the nearly 600 courtrooms throughout the county, with an annual budget of over $1 billion.
The Cavalcade of Jazz events were large outdoor jazz festivals held annually between 1945 and 1958 in Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, California, U.S. They were the first such large-scale events and were produced by an African American, Leon Hefflin, Sr. Hefflin was an entrepreneur who had started promoting dances and concerts for Black residents ...
First African-American woman appointed to a judgeship in California. Vaino Hassan Spencer (July 22, 1920 – October 25, 2016) was an American judge, the first African-American woman appointed to a judgeship in California. [1] She co-founded the Black Women Lawyers Association in 1975, [2] and the National Association of Women Judges in 1979.
Cool jazz. West Coast jazz refers to styles of jazz that developed in Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s. West Coast jazz is often seen as a subgenre of cool jazz, which consisted of a calmer style than bebop or hard bop. The music relied relatively more on composition and arrangement than on the individually improvised playing of ...
Morey Stanley Mosk (September 4, 1912 – June 19, 2001) was an American jurist, politician, and attorney. He served as Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court for 37 years (1964–2001), the longest tenure in that court's history. Before sitting on the Supreme Court, he served as Attorney General of California and as a trial court judge.
The Central Avenue Jazz Festival is a yearly annual free jazz festival that takes place the last weekend in the month of July in the Southern section of Los Angeles . Central Avenue, after which the area is named, was in the 1930s and 1940s a vibrant center for jazz. At this time the infamous covenant line along Washington Boulevard demarcated ...