League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
Los Angeles County, CA March 2, 2004 Election
	Mitchell W. Roth Answers Questions Candidate for Superior Court Judge; County of Los Angeles; Office 69

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Questions & Answers

1. Why are you running for Superior Court Judge?

The old testament enjoins us as a society, "Justice, justice shall you pursue!" Perhaps no goal is more important than this in our America. In order to move our society toward this ideal we must strive to keep the price of obtaining justice low so that, as much as possible, it is equally available to all.

Judges can have a substantial impact on and make significant progress toward this goal by being ever mindful of the cost to litigants in time and money that results from the need to comply with the court's own administrative decisions and policies. Having represented all kinds of people in all kinds of cases over the years I have a unique appreciation for the enormous monetary and psychological costs of litigation on the parties.

My calling now is to spend the remaining 20 years of my professional life serving our community in the position that best enables me to use my gifts. That position is Judge of the Superior Court.

2. What are the personal qualities which best equip you to serve as a judge?

The best judicial candidate is older, has a broad and varied base of personal and professional experience, integrity, a passionate commitment to justice, empathy and compassion for others and the intellectual capacity to function in complex legal and often technical environments.

After 26 years of diverse experience as a lawyer, litigator and professor I am uniquely qualified to perform well as a Superior Court Judge. My ability to understand and tolerate points of view other than my own, my empathetic and compassionate nature borne on an acute awareness of my own human failings and weaknesses, and my commitment to the equal dignity of all men and women, have allowed me, an active member of Los Angeles' Jewish community, to obtain the endorsement of groups as unexpected as Arab American Television and Christian Orthodox Television.

My wife tells me I am the most even tempered person she knows. Everyone who knows me tells me I will make a great judge. When elected I will certainly strive to live up to their expectations.