Like her husband, former county Supervisor Andrew Do, Judge Cheri Pham held a top leadership position in Orange County. As assistant presiding judge of the Superior Court of Orange County, she was in line to take over as presiding judge, which would have had her overseeing the nation’s fifth largest trial court.
Instead, the judge now spends her days in Orange County family court overseeing domestic violence cases.
Pham is no longer assistant presiding judge, and she decided not to submit her nomination for presiding judge last fall, shortly before local and federal law enforcement leaders announced that her husband, Do, agreed to plead guilty to a conspiracy to receive kickbacks from contracts meant to feed needy seniors. Pham hasn’t said publicly why she decided not to seek the county’s top judgeship. She did not respond to LAist’s interview request for this article, instead referring LAist to Kostas Kalaitzidis, a spokesperson for Orange County Superior Court…