Thomas Allison

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Thomas D. Allison

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Last election

June 7, 2022

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Thomas D. Allison ran for election for judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County in California. Allison lost in the primary on June 7, 2022.

Allison completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Elections

2022

See also: Municipal elections in Los Angeles County, California (2022)

General election

General election for Superior Court of Los Angeles County

Patrick Hare defeated Karen A. Brako in the general election for Superior Court of Los Angeles County on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Patrick Hare (Nonpartisan)	59.7	1,103,644
	Submit photo	Karen A. Brako (Nonpartisan)	40.3	746,554

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,850,198
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Superior Court of Los Angeles County

Patrick Hare and Karen A. Brako defeated Thomas D. Allison and Richard Quiñones in the primary for Superior Court of Los Angeles County on June 7, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Patrick Hare (Nonpartisan)	39.3	494,095
✔	Submit photo	Karen A. Brako (Nonpartisan)	24.0	301,745
		Thomas D. Allison (Nonpartisan)	19.1	240,670
	Submit photo	Richard Quiñones (Nonpartisan)	17.5	220,597

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,257,107
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Thomas D. Allison completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Allison's responses.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Currently, I serve as a volunteer temporary judge. When people come into my courtroom, they appear in front of someone born in poverty, experienced homelessness as a child and adult, and has been a victim of domestic violence. It is my life experience, legal experience, legal knowledge, and community service that prepares me to be an excellent judge.

I use my diverse legal experience to help make balanced decisions. Having done many trials and practice in family, criminal, civil litigation, and landlord-tenant, I am the best-prepared candidate to take on any judicial assignment.

I use my experience as a legal professor with two community colleges, a university, and a law school to communicate complicated laws and legal decisions to people without experience in the law.

I use the knowledge I have gained studying public administration at master’s and doctoral levels to ensure my decisions are fair, balanced, and for all involved.

Finally, I use my years of community service In providing more than 75 free legal clinics and more than 100 community education programs to inform my empathy and maintain dignity throughout the Court process.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Safe communities: The aim of the law is a well-ordered society, where innocent people have the right to live a happy and productive life.
• Equitable Justice: Judges should treat every person who comes into the courtroom with dignity and respect, regardless of their background or why they are in court.
• Community Service: Judges are the gatekeepers of the law and perform a highly valuable service to the community so dedication to the community should be evident prior to and while serving on the bench.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Judges decide more than criminal cases, and utilizing collaboration helps find more comprehensive solutions in every area of law. 1. Collaborative governance: Government agencies, nonprofits, and businesses from different industries should be involved in finding collaborative solutions through collaborative courts, alternatives to incarceration programs, expansion of rehabilitative services in detention centers, or wrap-around services in criminal, family, and dependency cases. 2. Transformative Participatory Evaluation: Community members should be educated on what their options are, what their lives look like if they choose each option, and how to access their options. This means working with parents and children in family law cases to develop family betterment plans for better custody and support solutions or working with defendants, victims, and the community to develop effective sentences and diversion, in the appropriate criminal cases. 3. Wrap-around Services: Judges can utilize a holistic approach to deciding cases by engaging wrap-around services: counseling and family services in custody and dependent cases, diversion and social services in criminal cases, education courses in support cases, and even offer relevant referrals in evictions. 4. Feedback Loop: there should be an effective way to communicate the results of the program to the court. Programs that work should be continued. Programs with poor quantitative and qualitative outcomes should be rejected.

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Footnotes

California courts

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Federal courts:

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Central District of California, Eastern District of California, Northern District of California, Southern District of California • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Central District of California, Eastern District of California, Northern District of California, Southern District of California

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California Supreme Court • California Courts of Appeal • California Superior Courts

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