Los Angeles County (Inglewood)
Career Highlights: Elected as a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, March 5, 2002; deputy and head deputy district attorney, Los Angeles County, 1979-2002; deputy attorney general, California, 1978-79
Law School: Loyola Law School
Career Highlights: Elected as a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, March 5, 2002; deputy and head deputy district attorney, Los Angeles County, 1979-2002; deputy attorney general, California, 1978-79
Law School: Loyola Law School
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
INGLEWOOD - Lauren Weis Birnstein's father never treated her like a girl.
He took her with him to the golf course and taught her to play tennis and chess.
"That gave me a lot of confidence," she said.
That self-assurance would take her on a post-college odyssey around the world and eventually, she said, place her in the midst of the most exciting live theater on earth: the courtroom.<... (continued)
