Good Additions to the Ogg Administration
The Ogg Administration has continued to make some positive additions in the personnel department over the past two weeks. On January 11th, Ogg announced that retired-178th District Court Judge David Mendoza was joining the Administration as the head of the newly created Office of Professional Integrity. As regular readers of this blog know, I'm a big fan of Judge Mendoza. Although he had previously been a judge, I had never met him before he won the 178th bench in 2008. I quickly developed a strong respect for him after appearing before him in his court. Judge Mendoza is a quiet and thoughtful man who will be a tremendous asset to the Office in the days to come. I'm glad to see that he'll remain a regular in the CJC as well. Today, the Office announced two other solid additions to the CJC team with the addition of veteran defense attorney (and actual veteran) Tom Berg . As noted in Ogg's e-mail to the staff, Tom is a defense attorney and former Federal Public