Cathedral High School 9th Annual Scholarship Banquet Honors Justice Carlos Moreno and Leonard Tavera.

LOS ANGELES -- Cathedral High School, a Los Angeles inner-city Catholic college preparatory high school, will honor State Supreme Court Associate Justice Carlos Moreno and Leonard Tavera at its 9th Annual Scholarship Banquet, to be held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Friday evening December 15, 2006. Among others present to help acknowledge Justice Moreno's service to Los Angeles and California will be Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Ed Reyes, Councilmember for the 1st District and keynoter speaker. Henry Alfaro, ABC Eyewitness News broadcaster and Cathedral HS alumnus, will be the evening's emcee.

Founded by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and operated by the De La Salle Christian Brothers, Cathedral High School has served Los Angeles since 1925 on its campus just northeast of the Civic Center. Today the school has over 660 students, two-thirds of whom come from the oldest and poorest neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Ninety-eight percent of Cathedral graduates continue their education on the college level. Twenty-seven percent of the Class of 2006 was admitted to a University of California campus -- more than twice the state average.

Carlos Moreno grew up just blocks from Cathedral High School. After graduation from Yale University and Stanford Law School, he began his legal career as Deputy City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles. After serving as a judge in the municipal and superior courts, he was nominated by President Bill Clinton to the federal bench. He was unanimously approved by the US Senate to a seat on the US District Court of the Central District of California. In 2001 Carlos Moreno was made an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of California.

Leonard Tavera, a 1977 graduate of Cathedral, current chair of the school's trustees and a prominent Southern California attorney, will be presented the school's Excellence in Education Award. Lenny Tavera attended Yale University and the UCLA School of Law. He has been active in the Cathedral High School Alumni Association since his undergraduate days and continues to be a dedicated supporter of his alma mater.

The Cathedral High School Scholarship Banquet helps provide over $1,070,000 in need-based, financial aid grants and academic scholarships to over 440 of Cathedral's 660 students who otherwise would not be able to afford a quality college preparatory education.

The school is currently building a much needed gymnasium-science lab classroom complex at a $14,000,000 cost to replace outmoded facilities. Much of the funding from this project has come from major philanthropic foundations of Southern California.

For over three hundred years, the De La Salle Christian Brothers and their partners have met challenges with utter resolve, always finding new ways to fulfill their educational mission, while heading into the future with faith, zeal and a sense of purpose.

For more information regarding Cathedral High School or the Cathedral High School Annual Scholarship Banquet, contact Martin Farfan, President, at 323-441-3118.