Former LAPD Overseer Hill Is Named a Judge
Former Los Angeles Police Department Inspector General Deirdre H. Hill was named a municipal judge in one of several judicial appointments announced Friday by Gov. Gray Davis.
Hill, 39, also served on the board of police commissioners.
Jon Mayeda, 52, was elevated to the Superior Court from the Municipal Court level, where he has been a judge since 1981.
Dennis M. Perluss, 51, a partner at the law firm of Morrison & Foerster, was also named a Superior Court judge.
Assistant U.S. Atty. Leslie A. Swain, 46, was named a municipal judge.
She has been a federal prosecutor since 1987, specializing in white-collar crimes. She prosecuted the largest bank fraud in FBI history, and a $130-million investor fraud case.
Richard E. Rico, 45, a senior attorney for the California Court of Appeal in Santa Ana since 1995, was named a municipal judge.
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