Judge ladoris cordell biography

American judge (born 1949)

LaDoris Hazzard Cordell (born November 19, 1949) is an American retired judge of the Superior Court of California, and a retired Independent Police Auditor for the city of San Jose, California.

Judge ladoris cordell biography

As the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at Stanford Law School (1978-82), Cordell developed an admissions program that led to a dramatic increase in the number of African American and Latino students at the law school. Within a year, Stanford Law School went from last to first place in the enrollment of students of color among major law schools.

Cordell was the first female African American judge in Northern California, and the first African American Superior Court judge in Santa Clara County, California. For more than a decade, she taught judicial conduct and ethics at B.

E. Witkin Judicial College of California.^[1]

Education

Before becoming a lawyer, Judge Cordell graduated from Antioch College in 1971 with a bachelor of a