GOMEZ WINS JUDGESHIP; WILL LEAVE COUNCIL.Byline: Naush Boghossian Staff Writer GLENDALE - The City Council will operate with just four members next spring after the election of Councilman Gus Gomez as a Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Superior Court judge, officials said Wednesday. In the Office 29 race, Gomez defeated Lori C. Jones, 52 percent to 48 percent, in their bid to succeed Judge Richard C. Hubbell, who is retiring. ``I'm extremely elated at the opportunity to serve as judge. It's a lifelong dream for me,'' said Gomez, who has worked as a prosecutor with the California Department of Justice since 1993. Gomez plans to serve on the council until he is sworn in Jan. 3 - three months before the April 5 municipal election. He can be assigned anywhere in Los Angeles County in either civil court or criminal court. Gomez moved with his family to the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. from Mexico in 1974, and spent his summers in the fields picking onions, garlic and strawberries. He earned his undergraduate degree “First degree” redirects here. For the BBC television series, see First Degree. An undergraduate degree (sometimes called a first degree or simply a degree at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. and his law degree at Stanford Law School  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . . He was elected to the Glendale City Council in 1999 and re-elected in 2003. He has been married for 10 years to Glynda, 40, who also graduated from Stanford. They live in Glendale with their daughter Amanda, 3. Glendale Councilmen Dave Weaver, Frank Quintero and Bob Yousefian face re-election in April, and Gomez's seat will also be up for election. The winner of Gomez's seat will finish out the two years remaining on his term. Four challengers have announced plans to run for City Council. Likely candidates are John Drayman dray·man n. A driver of a dray. , Pauline Field, Garry Sinanian and Steve Hedrick. The official filing period is from Jan. 6 to 27. ``A lot of people are going to come out of the woodwork and throw their hats in,'' Yousefian said. ``It's not easy if you are not an incumbent to come in and just run the first time and win unless there's an open position. That makes it a little bit easier when you have an open position.'' Yousefian said he called and congratulated Gomez on his win, adding that the success of a man whose parents worked as farmworkers, a hospital janitor and a barber, is the perfect example of achieving the American dream. ``I'm very happy for him. Only in America Only in America is a children's television programme that originally aired in 2005 on the CBBC Channel. It is presented by Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates. The show documents the pair going on a road trip across the United States. can you go from picking garlic and onions to going out and becoming a Superior Court judge,'' he said. ``And people say America is not the land of opportunity. I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what else you can call this.'' Naush Boghossian, (818) 546-3306 naush.boghossian(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: GOMEZ |
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