Young Lawyer Honored by Riverside P.D. Office

Congrats to Angela Herrera Santamaria!  Santamaria will receive the 2012 Misdemeanor Deputy Public Defender Attorney of the Year Award from the County of Riverside’s Law Offices of the Public Defender, for the Southwest Division Branch Office.  She will receive the award on December 14 during the office’s annual Gideon Awards Ceremony.  Santamaria is currently the Secretary of the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association Scholarship Fund.  Originally from National City, she is a 2011 graduate of California Western School of Law, and received her undergraduate degree from Brown University in 2007.