Katherine Lind joined the office in 1985 and currently supervises 41 attorneys. For the past 24 years she has provided advisory and litigation services concerning all aspects of municipal law, most notably planning, zoning, land division and California Environmental Quality Act matters. She played an important role in the County’s preparation and adoption of a new General Plan and its approval of the Riverside Hall of Justice, the Southwest County Justice Center and the Eagle Mountain Landfill.  She has drafted many of the County’s ordinances, including the adult business ordinance which has twice been upheld in federal court. She served as legal advisor to the Planning Commission from 1987 to 2007 and legal advisor to the Redistricting Committee in 1990 and 2000. Since 2002, she has served as legal advisor to the Board of Supervisors during its afternoon meetings.

 

From 1985 to 1987, Ms. Lind worked in the conservatorship unit where she obtained a published decision from the California Court of Appeal reducing the burden of proof counties are required to meet in habeas corpus writ hearings (In Re Azzarella (1989) 207 Cal.App.3d 1240). She also provided special assistance to the District Attorney’s Office in its prosecution of former conservator Bonnie Cambalik who was sentenced to 26 years in prison for embezzling from clients.

 

Before joining the office, Ms. Lind was a research attorney for the Honorable Robert E. Rickles, former Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division 2.

 

Ms. Lind is a volunteer at the Claremont Unified School District and the former chair of the City of Claremont’s Committee on Human Relations.

 

Ms. Lind received her J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles where she was a chief editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. She received a B.A., summa cum laude, from California State University, Long Beach where she was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

 

Ms. Lind is admitted to practice in all state courts and the United States District Court for the Central District of California.