Jackie lacey biography

District Attorney Jackie Lacey has spent most of her professional life as a prosecutor, manager, and executive in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

On December 3, , she was sworn in as the 42nd District Attorney.

Ms. Lacey oversees roughly 1, lawyers, nearly investigators and about support staff employees. She is the first woman and first African-American to serve as Los Angeles County District Attorney since the office was created in

A Los Angeles native and graduate of the University of Southern California Law School, Ms.

Lacey joined the largest local prosecutorial office in the nation in as a deputy district attorney.

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She worked her way through the ranks as a front-line prosecutor.

While serving as a deputy district attorney, she prosecuted hundreds of serious criminal cases. Ms. Lacey won national attention for her successful prosecution of the county's first race-based hate crime murder.

Ms. Lacey was recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice in M