
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Gavin Newsom, July 9, 2021; president, Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, 2020-21; sole practitioner, The Law Office of Michelle L. Kazadi, 2003-2021; associate, Pryce Parker Hill LLP, 1999-2002
Law School: U Louisville School of Law
LOS ANGELES — When family law attorney Janine M. Frisco recently learned that her case would be presided over by a judge with barely a year on the bench, her first reaction was to worry.
“I’m concerned about that, thinking ‘Oh great, we’re going to go to trial on this case and we’re getting a [new] judge. Does she know family law?’” the Long Beach attorney from Gilligan Frisco & Trutanich LLP recalled in a phone interview. <... (continued)