Public Decisions Database
This database contains decisions on all public judicial disciplinary cases since the inception of the commission in 1960. Cases not involving public charges or public discipline remain confidential under the California Constitution and the commission’s rules.
Pursuant to amendments to the Constitution, which took effect in March 1995, the commission is authorized to impose all disciplinary sanctions, subject to discretionary review by the Supreme Court. Prior to that, the Supreme Court had the authority to censure or remove judges from office upon recommendation by the commission.
Case Profile
New Search| First Name | Glenda K. |
| Last Name | Doan |
| Title | Judge |
| Inquiry No. | 114 |
| Court Level | Municipal Court |
| County/Appellate District | Kings |
| Discipline/Determination | Removal from office |
| Decision By | Supreme Court |
| Date of Decision | 10/05/1995 |
| Method of Resolution | Decision |
| Types of Misconduct | Bias/appearance of bias not directed toward a particular class Disqualification/disclosure/post-disqualification conduct Ex parte communications Failure to cooperate/lack of candor with regulatory authorities Gifts/loans/favors/ticket-fixing Improper business, financial or fiduciary activities Non-performance of judicial functions/attendance/sleeping Off-bench abuse of office/misuse of court information On-bench abuse of authority in performance of judicial duties |
| Petition For Review | |
| Summary | Judge Doan improperly presided over a matter relating to a criminal defendant to whom she owed money and over another matter involving a criminal defendant who was a nephew of a close personal friend. The judge also attempted to intervene in a matter relating to another criminal defendant, who was also a nephew of her close personal friend, and in a matter relating to the same friend when she was charged with criminal conduct. Judge Doan accepted a loan from a court clerk who was under her supervision and a loan from a lieutenant in the police department who served as the department's court liaison officer. The judge failed to report loans obtained from three friends in her annual statements of economic interests and failed to list all creditors in a bankruptcy petition filed jointly with her husband. She also offered to provide legal services for her friend's husband, who had been convicted of and imprisoned for federal felony narcotics trafficking offenses, after the judge had borrowed substantial sums of money from the friend. During the course of the commission's preliminary investigation, the judge asked two friends not to cooperation with the commission, and specifically not to discuss loans the judge had obtained from them. The judge was also habitually tardy in commencing court sessions. Judge Doan had been previously disciplined, including two public reprovals and a private admonishment. |
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