Non Partisan Judicial Judge Selection

Reason -- Check this hyperlink  Non Partisan Judgeships NOT QUALIFIED is a determination by the California	Preference
Office No 28 Kendal Reed: Intellectual property lawyer, Pepperdine professor of law.  Risk management and law office management experience.  Labor law, gov. contracts, patent, copyright.  Rated Not Qualified by the Bar Association. I like him, his background in " employment and labor law; contracts and transactional work; government contract law; UCC Article 2 issues in the manufacturing environment; distributorship issues; commercial real estate issues; patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret law; FDA and FAA administrative issues; environmental law; import/export law; entity formation issues; and estate planning."   Pasted from <http://sites.google.com/site/kenreedforjudge/>   Chris Garcia: Qualified by the Bar Association. Brags about recovering damages for survivors of Katrina. A PI lawyer currently City Attorney's office. Also special assistant US attorney's office in Major Frauds division. Pro union, Hispanic family. Identity Theft Task Force.  PoliSci Berkeley, Harvard JD. Edward Mac: Qualified. Public defender, Vietnam vet. US Air Force. Career within Gov. Randy Hammock: Qualified. Very little information. Philosophy unknown, stresses the right of everyone - victim, accused, families and jurors to fairness. Believes he'll make an excellent Judge.  He has served as a temp judge, a referee, mediator, and arbitrator. Elizabeth Moreno:  Qualified. Grew up in Madera, Spanish background who came to the former Spanish Colonies Grandfather architect went to Argentina first, then Hawaii, finally Bay Area. Brother works for NASA, sister is a teacher, lives near Fresno. Civil trial attorney, small claims judge (pro tem). Owns her own "certified minority woman" law firm.  Active in the Bar. Talks against bias. Loyola school JD. Dispute resolution Strauss.  Catholic and involved in catholic politics.  Also Multiple Sclerosis and Developmentally disabled. Edward Nison: Qualified.  DA for 24 years violent crimes, hard core gang background.  From Dayton Ohio, BA Psych. 1979, tended bar, UC Hastings JD. Believes that the impact of a case should be a part of a Judges consideration (not just the law!) Very much for the family of the victim. Kim Smith:  Not Qualified. No information on the net for this candidate, not even a home address. Mark Ameli:  Qualified. BA UC Berkeley, JD West LA.  15 years arbitrator/mediator cultural issues. Family of judges (father and grandfather).  Iranian American Lawyers founder. Waxman likes him, so does the Dem party.	Kendal Reed
JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT Office No. 35 Marvin Fischeler:  No information of any kind on this person found on the web. Laura A. Matz: Read one of her cases where 100,000,000 were awarded to a baby that had been misdiagnosed and was therefore a vegetable.  The LA times really likes her.	No vote
JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT Office No. 107   Stephen Bolinger:  Qualified. Conducted 116 trials, certified for Court Martial and Superior Court Arbitrator.  Stresses fairness, Judge as umpire. West LA JD, USC BA. Endorsed by Dianne Watson. Tony de los Reyes: Qualified. JD Whittier College, Judge Protem LA Superior, Mediator LA Superior.  Employed by TRW as a senior Lab Admin, lies about what that involves.  Appointed by Tom Bradley to the Civil Service Commission, ad the Police Commission (Rodney King). Sons teacher, yoga instructor, and executive chef. Endorsed by LA Times. Valery Salkin: Qualified. Deputy DA since 97. Endorsed by Villaragosa.	Stephen Bolinger
JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT Office No.117 Tom Griego:  Not Qualified UCLA PoliSci, MS Cal State Public Admin, JD Whittier College. Worked in Washington, then chief of staff LA City Councilman (who?), criminal prosecutor for LA City. Board member of Real Estate. William Mitchel Margolin: Qualified.  Jewish, self centered, twice married with 2 left over kids (He was the custodial parent). Trained actor, singer, dancer worked in TV's "The paper Chase", comedian. CSUN BA, Alan Schneider: Well Qualified.  Gang Homicide investigator. 15 y deputy DA.  Seems competent.  My pick from lack of information Pattricia M. Viewnna: Not Qualified. Loves little dogs. Private practitioner who believes she needs to be given a chance because the others are all law officers to begin with.	Alan Schneider
JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT Office No.131 Jim G. Baklayan:  Not Qualified. JD ULV. Be fair is his moto, seems someonel else above used the exact same words for his political philosophy. Elizabeth Nelson: Exceptionally Well Qualified.  A judge already.  Endorsed by Cooley and Sheriff Baca	Elizabeth Nelson