James Rodriguez - Alameda County Assistant Public Defender

Send us Fan Maillovethylawyer.comA transcript of this podcast is available at lovethylawyer.com.James RodriguezBorn in Los Angeles – grew up between Sacramento suburbs and LAUCLA undergrad - 1989 – started with an NROTC scholarship, dropped that, then studied film, then ended with History major, Studied at University of Guadalajara for a summerIn college worked at the American Film Institute, CARECEN - Central American Refugee Center and fry cookAfter graduation worked for two years as a teachers assistant with learning handicapped students, summers with severely disabled students (now called Resource Program)Applied to the four UC law schools after that – accepted at Boalt (Berkeley Law now of course)Was granted a summer fellowship to work at MALDEF – Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund – during 1L summerWorked at the Berkeley Community Law Center during school,  helping mothers recently paroled from prison who had passed aids to their children obtain SSIInterned with David Coleman at Contra costa defender’s during school2L summer worked at civil law firm in SacramentoAfter graduation received fellowship to work at the California Appellate Project in San Francisco, working with team on death penalty appeals Then worked two years in San Diego Public Defender’s officeMoved back to San Francisco, worked two years in the Office of Citizen Complaints  - SF police oversight agency  (now defunct, the responsibilities of the OCC was split into two separate agencies) - with Mary DunlapFound my way to Alameda defender’s in 2000, been there ever since.Please subscribe and listen. Then tell us who you want to hear and what areas of interest you’d like us to cover.  Louis Goodman www.louisgoodman.comhttps://www.lovethylawyer.com/510.582.9090Music: Joel Katz, Seaside Recording, MauiTech: Bryan Matheson, Skyline Studios, OaklandAudiograms: Paul Robert  [email protected]