Judge Terry J. Hatter to speak on juvenile justice system
The Honorable Terry J. Hatter Jr., United States District Judge, will present the 2008 Justice Lester W. Roth Lecture at USC Law Oct. 27. The lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in Town and Gown on the University Park Campus, with a reception to follow.
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Prior to his appointment to the federal bench, Hatter sat on the California Superior Court for Los Angeles County and earlier was an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern and Eastern Districts of California. He served as a special assistant and executive assistant to Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and has taught law at USC and Loyola Law School.
A Chicago native, Hatter graduated from Wesleyan University and received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1960, following his service in the Army and Air Force. He began his legal career as an assistant public defender and later went into private practice.
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Hatter has served as chair of the board of councilors at USC Law, and as chair of the board for the Los Angeles Civic Center Public Partnership. He currently serves on boards of the Rand Institute for Civil Justice and Equal Justice Works, and is vice chair of the Western Justice Center Foundation in Pasadena, Calif.
The Justice Lester W. Roth Lecture is named in honor of the former presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District. A 1916 graduate of USC Law, the late Justice Roth was appointed to the bench by Gov. Edmond G. Brown Sr. in 1963. He practiced law in L.A. and Beverly Hills and served as superior court judge and as vice president of Columbia Pictures Corporation. He died in 1992.
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