Los Angeles County (Monterey Park)
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Oct. 26, 2018; head deputy and deputy alternate public defender, Los Angeles County, 2005-18; deputy public defender, Los Angeles County, 2002-05
Law School: University of Washington School of Law
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Oct. 26, 2018; head deputy and deputy alternate public defender, Los Angeles County, 2005-18; deputy public defender, Los Angeles County, 2002-05
Law School: University of Washington School of Law
MONTEREY PARK — Judge Jana M. Seng was born 10 days before the takeover of Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge. She has few memories of life under the communist regime but can gather details, which she learned later in life, to sketch a comprehensible picture of her early childhood.
Her family was forced into a slave labor camp where they tended rice fields in exchange for “a bowl of watery rice every day,” Seng said. When the K... (continued)
