Los Angeles County (Foltz)
Career Highlights: Joined Judicate West in June 2023; appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court judge by Gov. Gray Davis, October 2002, retired May 2023; pro tem justice, 2nd Second District Court of Appeal, 2017; supervising judge, North Valley District, 2016; adjunct professor, USC Gould School of Law, 2002-present; assistant U.S. attorney, Central District of California, 1986-2002; associate, Kadison Pfaelzer Woodard Quinn & Rossi, 1981-84.
Law School: Columbia Law School
Judicate West
Career Highlights: Joined Judicate West in June 2023; appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court judge by Gov. Gray Davis, October 2002, retired May 2023; pro tem justice, 2nd Second District Court of Appeal, 2017; supervising judge, North Valley District, 2016; adjunct professor, USC Gould School of Law, 2002-present; assistant U.S. attorney, Central District of California, 1986-2002; associate, Kadison Pfaelzer Woodard Quinn & Rossi, 1981-84.
Law School: Columbia Law School
Judicate West
By Blake Edwards
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - In 2005, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Monica Bachner was handling drunk-driving, prostitution and petty theft cases in West Covina. She told the Daily Journal at the time that she enjoyed her work but also wished she had more felony trials.
After two and a half years in West Covina, Bachner moved downtown, where she handled misdemeanor trials and then preliminary hearings before being a... (continued)
