Attorney Ricardo Garcia Biography, Wiki, Age, Family, Salary

Ricardo Garcia Biography – Ricardo Garcia Wiki

Ricardo Garcia is a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles, CA. He is currently the public defender for the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s office, the largest and oldest public defender’s office in the United States. He was sworn in as Los Angeles County’s first Latino Public Defender in October 2018.

García started his legal career in 1995 with the San Diego Public Defender’s Office. In 1998, he was recruited to the Alternate Public Defender’s Office as the youngest attorney in that office.

In 2004, García was named Director of Criminal Justice for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. From 2007 to 2009, García supervised the South Bay Branch of the Alternate Public Defender’s Office. In 2008, he was awarded the Dale Melvin Ray Memorial Award for excellence in the representation of the indigent.

In February 2009, García accepted a position with the Multiple Conflicts Office – Major Cases, a unit of highly regarded attorneys, specifically created to handle complex homicide cases and Capital case defendants for the Public Defender. García was a supervisor in that office until 2017.

In 2015, García was awarded Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Criminal Defense Association of San Diego. He was a guest lecturer and adjunct professor at California Western School of Law in its Criminal Justice LLM and Acceso programs — work which took him to Mexico, Chile and Peru to educate and train judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys. García was also a faculty member at the Bryan R. Shechmeister Death Penalty College at Santa Clara University School of Law.

Education

García received his Bachelor of Art in politics and Latin American studies in 1991 from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He earned his Juris Doctorate in 1995 from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, and was admitted to the State Bar of California in December 1995.

Ricardo Garcia Age

Criminal defense attorney Ricardo Daniel Garcia was born in 1969 in Los Angeles to immigrant parents from Mexico.

Ricardo Garcia Family

He is the oldest of seven children and the first‐generation college graduate in his family. He is married with two children.

Ricardo Garcia Salary

LA County Public Defender Ricardo Garcia receives an annual salary of $466,489.

Ricardo Garcia Ethnicity

Ricardo Garcia is of Latino ethnicity. He maintains strong ties to his Mexican culture and the Latino community.