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Judges and Judiciary

Oct. 7, 2003

Pastor Follows Circuitous Path to Delinquency Bench

LOS ANGELES - On April 28, 1975, Martha E. Bellinger, a recently ordained minister in the United Methodist Church, gave a candidacy sermon to the members of two small parishes located in the Adirondack Mountains. She was seeking a position as pastor of those parishes.

Martha E. Bellinger
Superior Court Commissioner
Los Angeles
Career Highlights: Elected commissioner by Los Angeles Superior Court judges, 1991; deputy district attorney, Los Angeles County, 1984-91; assistant legal counsel, Pomona-Claremont-Bonita Unified School Distri...

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