Los Angeles County Superior Court
Career Highlights: Appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court judge by Gov. Gavin Newsom, July 17, 2024; of counsel, Perez & Perez APC, 2023-24; vice president, chief programs officer, directing attorney of Consumer Rights and Economic Justice Project, Public Counsel, 2019-23; partner, associate, Hadsell Stormer & Renick LLP, 2016-09; law clerk, Federal Public Defender's Office, Central District of California, 2009
Law School: Loyola Law School, 2009
Career Highlights: Appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court judge by Gov. Gavin Newsom, July 17, 2024; of counsel, Perez & Perez APC, 2023-24; vice president, chief programs officer, directing attorney of Consumer Rights and Economic Justice Project, Public Counsel, 2019-23; partner, associate, Hadsell Stormer & Renick LLP, 2016-09; law clerk, Federal Public Defender's Office, Central District of California, 2009
Law School: Loyola Law School, 2009
LOS ANGELES - Three weeks into her first judicial assignment, Superior Court Judge Cindy Pánuco was at the Metro Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles hearing traffic ticket appeals, where cases move quickly, usually without lawyers.
One woman appealed a citation and began explaining the circumstances. What followed was not a polished legal argument, but a public accounting of hardship: months of instability, benefits lost, setbacks one after the other.
Pánuco f... (continued)
