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Neetu Badhan Smith
American jurist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Neetu Badhan Smith is the first Sikh woman judge in the United States.[1] Badhan Smith is a judge for the Los Angeles County Superior Court of California.[2] She was appointed to the bench by former Governor Jerry Brown in 2017.[3][4]
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Biography
She was born into an immigrant Ravidasia Sikh[5] family in California. Badhan-Smith earned a Juris Doctor degree from Southwestern Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.[3]
Prior to her appointment to the Superior Court, she had served as a deputy public defender at the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office since 2004. She was an attorney at the Southern California Housing Rights Centre from 2003 to 2004.[6]
She is inspired by Indian jurist Dr. Ambedkar and his movement against casteism.[7]
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