Articles Posted on December 10th, 2011

  • SF Public Defender’s Office Celebrates Nine Decades
    of Delivering Justice

    by FCJ Editor on Dec 10, 2011 | 1 Comment

    In 1921, the California Legislature passed the Public Defender Act after Clara Foltz, California’s first female lawyer, spent years advocating for the creation of Public Defenders’ offices to provide legal assistance to poor people in criminal law cases. Later in 1921, responding to the Public Defender Act, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance creating the Office of the Public Defender.

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