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In the Matter of Honoring
Deputy Public Defender,Jeffery Bradley
To Commemorate His Retirement RESOLUTION NO.2004/494
WHEREAS, Jeffrey Bradley is retiring from the Office of the Public Defender after thirty years of
exemplary service, and
WHEREAS, Jeffrey Bradley reversed his field from electrical engineering, immigrated from New
York City and obtained his JD degree from Hastings Law School in 1973;
WHEREAS, Jeffrey Bradley pulled his humpback Volvo into the parking lot(now the jail)for the
Public Defender Office on July 10, 1974;
WHEREAS, Jeffrey Bradley has performed every assignment and handled every type of case that can
arise in a Public Defender Office from misdemeanors through capital cases;
WHEREAS, Jeffrey Bradley's creativity, acumen and ebullient comments with respect to legal issues
and motions inspired his colleagues over the years to greater and more zealous litigation efforts;
WHEREAS, Jeffrey Bradley has refined many protocols and developed unique approaches to
handling the probation calendars in various Superior Court departments;
WHEREAS, Jeffrey Bradley has played a major role in the development of the Department's Clean
Slate program for expunging convictions from the records of past clients;
WHEREAS, Jeffrey Bradley is retiring from the Public Defender Office now driving a 2004 Jaguar;
and
WHEREAS, Jeffrey Bradley has given 30 years of his life to social engineering through the practice
of law on behalf of poor and disadvantaged people who needed his strong counsel and seasoned
advice;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra
Costa acknowledges and thanks Jeffrey Bradley for his dedicated service to the Office of the Public
Defender, the clients of that Office and the people of this County on the occasion of his retirement as
an employee of Contra Costa County.
PASSED and ADOPTED by a unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors members present this 5th
day of Octo, er, 2004.
OHN GIOIA, 1st District ,' AYLE B.UI EMA, 2nd District
MILLIE GREENBERG,3rd District T MARK DESAULNIER,4d~Dis"trict
FE RAL LOVER,Chair,5th District
* 1 hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of
an action taken and entered on the minutes of the
Board of Supervisors on the date shown:
ATTESTED: October 5,2004
a JOHN SWEETEN,Clerk of the Board of
Superviso and County Administrator
�O"7A oou " By Deputy
RESOLUTION NO.2004/494