San Joaquin College of Law issued the following announcement.
Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed 53-year-old Sosi Chitakian Vogt (Law ’95) to serve as a Madera County Superior Court Judge, but she is not new to the role of bench officer; Vogt has served as a Court Commissioner at the Madera County Superior Court since 2020. Prior to that role, she was Appointed Counsel at Madera Alternate Defense in 2019 and an Associate at Wapner Jones PC from 2016 to 2018.
The Governor’s Press Release adds “Vogt was an Associate at Sawl Law Group from 2009 to 2015 and a Contract Attorney at the Fresno County Public Defender’s Office from 2003 to 2009. She was Corporate Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the American Division at Anderson Clayton Queensland Cotton from 2001 to 2003, a Deputy District Attorney at the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office from 1998 to 2001 and an Associate at Richard A. Ciummo and Associates from 1996 to 1998.”
Vogt becomes the fifth person from the Class of ’95 to achieve the role of bench officer; her classmates included Hon. F. Brian Alvarez, Hon. Edward Ruben Carrillo, Jr., Hon. Jeremias F. DeMelo, Jr., and Hon. Elizabeth Ann Kams Egan. She is the 25th SJCL alumni to attain the position of Superior Court Judge, and the 59th SJCL alumni to become a bench officer.
She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Joseph A. Soldani, who was appointed by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010. Soldani is a Democrat. Vogt is a Republican. Governor Newson appointed 22 Superior Court Judges on Friday, September 3rd, but Vogt was the only one appointed in the Valley.
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