
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Tulare County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2015, retired March 2024; commissioner, Tulare County Superior Court, 1995-2015; supervising public defender, Tulare County, 1990-95; deputy public defender, Tulare County, 1980-90
Law School: UC hastings College of the Law
When a youthful probationer recently appeared before Tulare County Superior Court Judge Hugo J. Loza, the veteran jurist realized there was a problem: The boy and his mother were homeless and living in a rural area, far from the crime diversion program to which the boy had been assigned.
Loza, currently the supervising juvenile court judge, has wide experience with the delinquency and dependency cases that crowd his docke... (continued)