Career Highlights: Elected Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, June 3, 2014; deputy district attorney, Los Angeles County, 1999-2014; research attorney for Los Angeles County Superior Court judges Judith Ashmann-Gerst and David Horowitz,1998-99; associate, Law Offices of Karp and Castelblanco, 1997-98
Law School: UCLA School of Law, 1997
Daily Journal Staff Writer
COMPTON - Judge Teresa Magno became a lawyer to ensure her family never again experienced helplessness in the face of injustice as they had when she was a child in the Philippines.
She became a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney because she wanted to ensure justice for others, and spent almost half of her 15-year career as a gang prosecutor.
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