Prosecutor is a trailblazer
Prosecutor is a trailblazer
- January 27, 2014
- Jackie Lacey, psychology '79, is featured in the Orange County Register January 27, 2014
From the OC Register:
Jackie Lacey is a woman of many firsts. Before she was the first woman and the first
African American to be elected district attorney of Los Angeles County, Lacy was a
first-generation college student who received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from
UC Irvine (Class of 1979) and a law degree from USC. She went on the become a deputy
district attorney, a position for which she earned national recognition for a 1998
case that was the first successful prosecution of a Los Angeles County race-based
hate-crime murder. As she worked her way to the top, Lacey also established the first
Animal Cruelty Prosecution Program in the United States. Lacey is now in her second
year as the Los Angeles County district attorney.
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