LC control no. | no 96019199 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PS3554.A68 |
Personal name heading | Darden, Christopher A. |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 19560407 |
Place of birth | Richmond (Calif.) |
Affiliation | San JoseĢ State University California State University, Los Angeles Southwestern University (Los Angeles, Calif.). School of Law California. District Attorney (Los Angeles County) Hastings College of the Law Foxx Firm, PLC |
Profession or occupation | Lawyers Authors |
Found in | In contempt, c1996: t.p. (Christopher A. Darden) jkt. (Christopher Darden) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Darden, Christopher A.; Christopher Allen Darden; lawyer and writer; born 07 April 1956 in Richmond, California, United States; BS in Criminal Justice Administration, San Jose State University (1977), LLD, Hastings College of the Law at the University of California in San Francisco (1980); appointed at the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office (1981); accepted successive faculty positions at California State University, Los Angeles, and Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles; after four years of teaching, he founded his own firm, Darden and Associates, which specialized in criminal defense; wrote four books between 1996 and 2002; recognized by numerous women's, children's, and victims' advocacy groups; Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger considered him for an appointment as a Los Angeles Superior Court judge in 2007; by 2012 he was serving as the counsel to a private criminal defense organization, the Foxx Firm, PLC, and residing in Los Angeles) |