Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Oct. 29, 2018; deputy public defender, Los Angeles County, 1999-2018; attorney, Dependency Court Legal Services, 1998-99; attorney, Legal Aid and Defender Association of Detroit, 1995-97
Law School: Detroit College of Law
DOWNEY — Some trivia about Judge Scott Herin: He got his law degree from “a school that doesn’t exist anymore” and only reads “mind candy” in his spare time, he says. He used to play the drums and believes, inaccurately, that the members of the rock band Rush are “gods amongst Canadians.” He’s also been thinking lately about how people stopped calling him by his first name since he took the bench in November 2018.
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