Dean Hansell

Hon. Dean Hansell is a California Superior Court Judge, appointed to the bench by Governor Jerry Brown. He was a partner in a global law firm.

Judge Hansell graduated with a B.A. cum laude from Denison University and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law. He served on Denison’s Board of Trustees and serves on the Law Board of Northwestern Law School.

Judge Hansell was appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom to the Governor’s Judicial Selection Advisory Committee. He chairs the California Judge’s Association Compensation and Benefits Oversight Committee and served on the Los Angeles Superior Court Executive Committee.

Hansell was Police Commissioner of Los Angeles and chaired the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Civilian Oversight Commission Working Group. He was President of the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension Board and President of Los Angeles’s cable television commission (Board of Information Technology Commissioners.) He is Vice Chair of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles Board of Directors and Governance Committee Chair of the Los Angeles City College Foundation Board.

Judge Hansell’s prior public service includes Co-President of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, Co-Founder and President of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Los Angeles (GLAAD) and President of the Dean’s Advisory Board, UCLA School of Public Health.