
Career Highlights: Nominated as a U.S. district judge of the Central District of California by President Barack Obama, July 17, 2015; appointed a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Nov. 5, 2008; deputy chief, organized crime drug enforcement section, U.S. attorney's office, 2006-08; assistant U.S. attorney, 1998-2006; associate, White & Case, Los Angeles, 1995-98
Law School: USC Gould School of Law, 1995
LOS ANGELES — During a recent murder-arson trial, Superior Court Judge Mark Anthony Young said, “Bless you” to a juror who sneezed in the middle of a defense attorney’s umpteenth objection. In the very same breath, he added, “Overruled.”
At his U.S. Senate hearing in 2015, after being nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Young was asked to explain his view of judicial t... (continued)