California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently announced the appointments of David Fields ’88 and Laura Laesecke ’92 to judgeships in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. A partner with Brown, White & Newhouse, Fields has worked in private practice since 2001 after a 10-year stint as assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, where he served as deputy chief of the major crimes section and domestic terrorism coordinator. Laesecke has been a deputy district attorney for the Los Angeles County District Attorneys Office since 1992. She has tried more than 30 murder cases, and spent eight years in the office’s Hardcore Gang Unit prosecuting gang members for violent felonies.