calattorneysCASE 2021 Elections
Updated: Sep 9, 2021
September 1, 2021
Pursuant to Section 3.14 of the CASE Bylaws, the list of candidates for the 2021 CASE Board of Directors election has been certified by the CASE Elections Committee. In alphabetical order, candidates in the 2021 Board of Directors election are:
President
Peter Flores, Jr. **
Deputy Attorney General V
Department of Justice
San Francisco
Vice President
Colin Rizzo
Administrative Law Judge II
Public Utilities Commission
San Francisco
Geoffrey Sims **
Workers’ Compensation Judge
Department of Industrial Relations
Fresno
Secretary
Jennifer Russell
Administrative Law Judge II
Department of General Services/Office of Administrative Hearings
Los Angeles
Wade DiCosmo
Workers’ Compensation Judge
Department of Industrial Relations
San Diego
Treasurer
Rama Maline **
Deputy Attorney General V
Department of Justice
Los Angeles
Director-At-Large
Alan Mason
Administrative Law Judge II
Department of Social Services
Sacramento
Angel Braach
Attorney III
State Compensation Insurance Fund
Riverside
Ashley Harlan
Deputy Attorney General III
Department of Justice
San Francisco
Eric Lazarus
Attorney III
Department of Health Care Services
Sacramento
Jamie Ormond
Attorney
Public Utilities Commission
San Francisco
Jeannette Macmillan
Attorney III
State Coastal Conservancy
Oakland
Jennifer Russell **
Administrative Law Judge II
Department of General Services/Office of Administrative Hearings
Los Angeles
John Appelbaum **
Deputy Attorney General V
Department of Justice
Sacramento
Katherine Scott-Smith
Attorney III
Department of Insurance
Oakland
Katrina Manookian **
Attorney IV
State Compensation Insurance Fund
Monterey Park
Ralph Sivilla **
Deputy Attorney General V
Department of Justice
San Francisco
Simon Hovakimian
Workers’ Compensation Judge
Department of Industrial Relations
Long Beach
Talene Ghazarian
Attorney
Department of Health Care Services
Sacramento
Traci Belmore
Administrative Law Judge I
Department of General Services/Office of Administrative Hearings
Oakland
Yuri Choy
Administrative Law Judge I
Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board
San Jose
(** designates a current member of the CASE Board of Directors)
This year CASE members will elect four (4) Officers and four (4) Directors-At-Large, each with a two-year term of office. An independent elections company will email ballots and optional candidate statements to all CASE Voting Members on October 15, 2021. This company will also determine by random drawing the order of candidates on the official ballot.
The voting period shall end at 5:00pm on Friday, November 5, 2021 and the results will be published via email and on the CASE website.
If you have changed your email address in the past 6 months, please contact the CASE office at info@calattorneys.org to update your contact information, which will help ensure that you receive your e-ballot in a timely manner.
CASE thanks all of the candidates who have volunteered to represent and serve the members of Bargaining Unit 2 and wishes each candidate the best of luck in the 2021 election.
Sincerely,
The CASE Elections Committee