
Career Highlights: Elected Supervising judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court, 2018; assistant supervising judges, Los Angeles County Superior Court, 2016-18 appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court judge by Gov. George Duekmejian, 1988; Los Angeles County district attorney's office, 1994-88; Los Angeles city attorney's office, 1991-94; Jones, Day Reavis & Pogue, 1990-91.
Law School: Loyola Law School, 1989
Daily Journal Staff Writer
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LOS ANGELES - When Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Sam Ohta's father arrived in Fresno from Japan in the late 1960s, he came with big dreams for his two sons.
"He thought this would be a great place for my brother and I to grow up," Ohta said. "Japan is stratified because they look at your paren... (continued)