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Judges and Judiciary

Mar. 16, 2007

Retirement Programs Discourage Diversity on the Bench

Forum Column - By J. Stephen Czuleger and Peter Espinoza - The Los Angeles Superior Court is making great progress in increasing the diversity of its bench, but systemic changes are needed to make judging an attractive financial alternative, write two Los Angeles judges.

FORUM COLUMN

By J. Stephen Czuleger and Peter Espinoza
     
      The Administrative Office of the Courts has released the first in what will be a statutorily required annual series of reports on the gender and ethnicity of the bench in California - a subject about which accurate information has, historically, been all too difficult to get.
      Although action by the ...

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