Brandlin Appointed Superior Court Judge
South Bay Municipal Judge James R. Brandlin has been appointed by Gov. Pete Wilson to the position of Los Angeles Superior Court judge. He will replace Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki, who retired July 6.
Fujisaki recently presided over the civil court trial in Santa Monica of former football star O.J. Simpson, who was accused of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Lyle Goldman.
Brandlin, 39, who has worked in the South Bay since 1993, returned to his courtroom Monday to pack after a vacation.
Brandlin served as a Los Angeles deputy district attorney from 1986 to 1993. Before working for the district attorney’s office, he was a deputy sheriff with the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department and a community service officer with the Inglewood Police Department.
He graduated from Santa Barbara College of Law in 1986.
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