What was the name of the judge in the OJ Simpson murder trial?
* Lance Ito: Lance Allan Ito (born August 2, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, best known for his presiding role during the O. J. Simpson murder trial. Ito was born to Jim and Toshi Ito. As children, both had been kept in Japanese American internment camps with their families during World War II. Ito attended John Marshall High School, where he was student body president and received the Scholar Athlete award in 1968. He earned his Bachelors Degree with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972, and his J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall in 1975. He then joined the Los Angeles district attorney’s office in 1977, working in the hardcore gang unit and the organized crime and terror unit, among others. In 1981, he married Margaret Ann York, the first woman to attain the rank of Deputy Chief in the Los Angeles Police Department and that department’s highest ranking woman officer at
