A former Pasadena city councilman was among 10 people named Friday by Gov. Jerry Brown as new Los Angeles County Superior Court judges.
William A. Crowfoot, 61, of Pasadena, was on the Pasadena City Council from 1993 to 2001, and has worked as an assistant U.S. attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office since 2003. He previously was a senior associate at Paul Hastings LLP from 1997 to 2001, where he was an associate and of counsel from 1987 to 1995, along with working as a bilingual education teacher at Blair High School from 1995 to 1997 and an attorney at the Inter-American Development Bank from 1981 to 1987.
Also named to the bench were:
— Wendy W. Y. Chang, 47, of Los Angeles, who has been a partner at Hinshaw and Culbertson LLP since 2008 and a senior associate at the same firm from 2004 to 2008. She was previously a senior associate at Manatt, Phelps and Phillips LLP from 2003 to 2004 and an associate at Baker, Keener and Nahra from 1998 to 2003.
— Christopher W. Dybwad, 43, of Los Angeles, who has been chief deputy federal public defender in the Federal Public Defender’s Office’s Central District of California since 2014. He has served in several positions for the office since 2005, and was an associate at Debevoise and Plimpton from 2001 to 2003 and 2004 to 2005.
— Altus W. Hudson, 52, of Los Angeles, who has been a sole practitioner since 2011. He was a partner and attorney at Kidd and Hudson from 1998 to 2011 and was a deputy city attorney for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office from 1995 to 1998.
— Michelle C. Kim, 44, of South Pasadena, who has been a deputy alternate public defender for the Los Angeles Alternate County Public Defender’s Office since 2005. She worked as a deputy public defender for the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office from 2003 to 2005.
— Terrance T. Lewis, 60, of Altadena, who has been a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner since 2014. He was a deputy public defender for the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office from 1988 to 2014.
— Debra L. Losnick, 58, of Los Angeles, who has been a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner since 1996. She worked as a juvenile court referee from 1990 to 1996, was a contract county counsel at the Los Angeles Office of County Counsel from 1986 to 1990 and an associate at Nossaman, Gunther, Knox and Elliott in 1986.
— Jean M. Nelson, 54, of Altadena, who has been a partner at Scheper Kim and Harris LLP since 2008. She was an assistant U.S. attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office from 1995 to 2006 and was an associate at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown and Enersen LLP from 1992 to 1995.
— Jonathan Rosenbloom, 54, of Beverly Hills, who has been a sole practitioner since 2009. He was a partner at Rosenbloom and Rosenbloom from 1997 to 2009, and an associate at Anker, Hymes and Schreiber from 1992 to 1997, at Maiden, Rosenbloom, Wintroub, Fridkis and Resser from 1990 to 1992 and at Berman, Blanchard, Mausner and Kindem from 1989 to 1990.
— Helen Zukin, 60, of Los Angeles, who has been a partner at Kiesel Law LLP since 2010, where she was of counsel from 2006 to 2010. She was a sole practitioner from 1995 to 2006 and a partner at Simke, Chodos, Silberfeld and Anteau Inc., from 1992 to 1995, where she was an associate from 1990 to 1992; and an associate at Greene, O’Reilly, Agnew and Broillet from 1985 to 1990.
Meanwhile, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gail Ruderman Feuer, 58, of Los Angeles, was appointed as an associate justice for Div. 7 of California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal. She has been a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge since 2005, and was a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council from 1993 to 2005, a deputy attorney general for the California Attorney General’s Office from 1987 to 1993 and an associate at O’Donnell and Gordon from 1985 to 1987.