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Judges and Judiciary

Feb. 12, 2004

Evenhanded Commissioner Listens, Maintains Decorum

LOS ANGELES - The teenage boy slouched in the witness stand, his mop of dark hair flopped over his face as he testified nervously during the preliminary hearing of a man accused of clubbing another man in the skull with a baseball bat.

Kristi Lousteau
Superior Court Commissioner
Los Angeles
Career highlights: Superior Court commissioner, elected by judges of Los Angeles County, 2000; commissioner, Los Angeles Municipal Court, 1993-2000; deputy city attorney, Los Angeles, 1980-93; law clerk and staff attorney, Occidental Life Insurance Company of California, 1978-80
Law school: Southwestern University School of Law, 1978
Age: 50
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