Los Angeles County (Compton)
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Gray Davis, 2002; deputy attorney general, Los Angeles, 1988-2002
Law School: UCLA Law School
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Gray Davis, 2002; deputy attorney general, Los Angeles, 1988-2002
Law School: UCLA Law School
COMPTON — As a South Korean immigrant whose family ran a grocery store, Judge Tammy C. Ryu spoke of tension between her community and African-Americans in the early 1990s and how it inspired her to seek an assignment at the Compton Courthouse.
“With the [L.A.] riots happening and a lot of I would say tension between the Korean-American community and the African-American community, I thought that it would be great if I cam... (continued)
