SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Susanne S. Cho and James T. Latting to judgeships in the Riverside County Superior Court.
Cho, 48, of Palm Desert, has been an attorney at the Law Offices of Rodney Lee Soda since 2004. She served as a deputy public defender at the Riverside County Public Defender’s Office from 1994 to 2004. Cho earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge David B. Downing. Cho is a Democrat. Cho will be the first Korean American woman judge ever appointed to the Riverside County Superior Court.
Latting, 65, of Palm Desert, has been of counsel at Roemer and Harnik LLP since 2002. He was general counsel and managing general partner at Latting and Co. from 1996 to 2002 and from 1984 to 1988. Latting was a partner at George, Hull, Porter and Kohli P.S. from 1990 to 1996 and an associate at Bogle and Gates from 1988 to 1990, where he was an associate from 1979 to 1981. He was a partner at Bratcher, Owen, Latting, Teague and Owen from 1981 to 1984 and an associate at Crowe and Dunlevy from 1978 to 1979. Latting earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University. He fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Gary B. Tranbarger. Latting is a Democrat.
The compensation for each of these positions is $184, 610.