Bernie Brown

Retired Assistant Los Angeles City Attorney and book author A Prosecutor's Analysis of Personal Supernatural Experiences

Biography of Bernie Brown

Bernie E. Brown was born in the southern town of Guthrie, Oklahoma. His family moved to Los Angeles, where Bernie grew up as a child. While attending junior high school, Bernie was recognized for his academic achievements and was placed in the College Capable Program. At a young age, Bernie became an entrepreneur, starting a car wash business at the local gas station and running an after school janitorial business while in high school.

Bernie began his college education at Los Angeles City College, where he acquired an Associate of Arts Degree in Speech. In 1972, at the Statewide Intercollegiate Speech Competition, Bernie finished in the top three speakers in the California State Persuasive Speaking Competition after delivering a stunning speech on nuclear disarmament, and he qualified for the National Intercollegiate Competition. Unfortunately, Bernie had to start full time employment to support his mom and sister, which prevented him from attending and competing in the National Speech Competition, but it did not stop his perseverance and thirst to become a lawyer. In 1973, he was accepted at the University of California at Los Angeles. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from UCLA in just three years.

In 1976, Bernie was admitted to Hastings College of the Law. At Hastings, he served as Senior Class Student Body Representative. He also served as the Student Body Representative on the Hastings Faculty Standing Committee on Disadvantaged Students and the Hastings Faculty Standing Committee on Academic Standards and Policies. While serving on the Academic Standards Committee, Bernie assisted in writing a new admissions program that was ultimately adopted and is still in existence today.

After graduating from Hastings, Bernie acquired a judicial clerkship, serving as a research attorney for the Honorable James R. Dooley, United States Bankruptcy Judge. There he assisted Judge Dooley in writing approximately a dozen published opinions, none of which were reversed on appeal. After a few years in private practice as a bankruptcy attorney, Bernie joined the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office Central Trials Branch in 1988, where he prosecuted dozens of jury trials with a 90% conviction rate. Within three years after joining the Office, Bernie was appointed to the position of Assistant Supervisor of the Central Criminal Branch. He remained in that position for eight years. He was then appointed as the Supervising Attorney for the San Pedro Criminal Branch, where he served for nine years. From there he was appointed as the Supervising Attorney for the Pacific Criminal Branch. After serving in that capacity for two years, he was appointed as the Supervising Attorney for the Central Criminal Branch. He served as the Supervisor of the Central Branch for five years. He was then appointed to serve as the Supervising Attorney for the Metropolitan Criminal Branch. He retired two years later and is recognized for having served as the direct line Supervisor of more branches than any other City Attorney in the history of the City Attorney’s Office. He is recognized for his creation of the Central Trials Important Cases Directory, which is regularly used by attorneys throughout the Office. He also co-authored a Search & Seizure Brief Bank and created a Central Trials Trial Practice Video. He is a former President of the Association of Black City Attorneys, where he is recognized for having convened a group of lawyers and bar passage experts to analyze the minority Bar passage rate. Based on these meetings, Bernie authored “A Guide to Successful Bar Passage”, which remains in distribution as a resource tool to assist law students preparing to take the California State Bar.

In 1994, Bernie served as Chair of the California State Bar Committee on Ethnic Minority Relations, where he emphasized minority Bar passage, networking, and the creation of an expanded mailing list, seeking to include all minority attorneys in the State of California.

Bernie has a long history of involvement with the John M. Langston Bar Association. He has served in a variety of functions, including Sergeant At Arms, Recording Secretary, Vice-President and President. Some of Bernie’s most notable contributions to Langston include participation in the Langston Career Day Program and production of the first Langston Bar Association Bar Review Video. In addition to his Langston activities, Bernie has volunteered hundreds of hours speaking before elementary and middle school inner-city students at career day programs and provided pro bono legal services at the First A.M.E. Legal Clinic and Saint Stephens Missionary Baptist Church.

Bernie has recently authored a fascinating book entitled, A Prosecutor’s Analysis of Personal Supernatural Experiences, where he interviews dozens of people and conducts a critical analysis of stories about supernatural experiences. He is currently working on production of podcast interviews of people who profess to have had a personal supernatural experience.

Bernie is married to the Honorable Judge Gloria L. White-Brown, and they have two beautiful children, Deputy District Attorney Noelle Celene Brown and Dr. Blake Cue Brown. Bernie is a former marathon runner, a mountain hiker and serves as a speech trainer and judge for his church youth speech program.
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BERNIE E BROWN

BULLIT-POINT BIOGRAPHY

1. RETIRED ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY FOR THE LOS ANGELES CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE.
2. TOTAL 26 YEARS SERVICE AS A SUPERVISING ATTORNEY
3. 8 YEARS ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR OF CENTRAL TRIALS CRIMINAL BRANCH
4. 8 YEARS SUPERVISOR OF THE SAN PEDRO CRIMINAL BRANCH
5. 2 YEARS SUPERVISOR OF THE PACIFIC / AIRPORT CRIMINAL BRANCH
6. 5 YEARS SUPERVISOR OF CENTRAL CRIMINAL BRANCH
7. 2 YEARS SUPERVISOR OF THE METROPOLITAN CRIMINAL BRANCH
8. FORMER CITY ATTORNEY GANG UNIT PROSECUTOR
9. FORMER HEAD OF CITY ATTORNEY BANK FRAUD UNIT
10. 90% JURY TRIAL CONVICTION RATE
11. CREATED CITY ATTORNEY TRIAL PRACTICE VIDEO
12. AUTHORED CITY ATTORNEY IMPORTANT CASES DIRECTORY
13. CO-AUTHORED CITY ATTORNEY SEARCH AND SEIZURE BRIEF BANK
14. CONDUCTED CITY ATTORNEY TRAINING SEMINARS
15. CONDUCTED POLICE OFFICER ROLL-CALL TRAINING
16. FORMER CHAIR OF THE STATE BAR COMMITTEE ON ETHNIC MINORITY RELATIONS
17. FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE JOHN M. LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION
18. INDUCTED IN THE LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION HALL OF FAME
19. FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF BLACK CITY ATTORNEYS
20. GRADUATE HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW
21. UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES
22. ASSOCIATE OF ARTS DEGREE IN PERSUASIVE SPEAKING FROM THE LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE
23. BOOK AUTHOR: A PROSECUTOR’S ANALYSIS 0F PERSONAL SUPERNATURAL EXPERIENCES