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Jul. 20, 2006

Her Own Best Client

Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Tamila Ebrahimi Ipema cut her teeth on immigration law when she spent 12 years arranging to get her whole family from Iran into the United States.

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Her Own Best Client

Tamila Ebrahimi Ipema

Los Angeles County Superior Court

Career Highlights: Retired July 2022, Appointed to the San Diego County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2009; commissioner, San Diego County Superior Court, 2008-09; commissioner, Los Angeles County Superior Court, 2005-08; supervising research attorney, Los Angeles County Superior Court, 2000-05; assistant district counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Services, 1995-99; staff attorney, Tsoi & Isel Law Offices, Los Angeles, 1992-93; attorney, Catholic Charities of Orange County, Santa Ana, 1999-92

Law School: University of Louisville School of Law, 1989
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By Paria Kooklan
Daily Journal Staff Writer


Superior Court Commissioner Tamila Ebrahimi Ipema learned the ins and outs of immigration law even before she went to law school.
      Ipema, who was born and raised in Tehran, Iran, came to the United States in 1978 to escape the growing unrest that preceded the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
      She spent the next decade ge... (continued)

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