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In the Matter of Honoring
Deputy Public Defender, Virginia Hollins-Davidson
To Commemorate Her Retirement RESOLUTION NO. 2006/187
WHEREAS, Virginia Hollins-Davidson is.retiring from the Office of.the Public Defender after
seventeen years of exemplary-service; and L ,
WHEREAS, Virgiiiia-11o11ins-Davidson began her career after college as a teacher in the Peace
Corps, then turned to the study.of law, receiving her JD in 1973 from Wayne State:University;
WHEREAS, Virginia I16ll-ins-Davidsorl's first employment as 5nattoi:ney was in Legal, Services in
Waterloo;-Iowa, and her criminal defense career started two years later in earnest with the Black
Hawk County .Public Defender in Waterloo, Iowa:
WHEREAS, after moving to CaliforniaiVirginia Hollins-Davidson taug' htF in.the.Richmond Unified
School District; sat for the California State Bar Examination.and began work'-as-a Law.Clerk in the;
Office of the Public Defender in .1988;
WHEREAS,Virginia Hollins=Davldson'began lien career;as an attorney it the Depaititieiit:in 1989;
assigned to handle inisdeineanor cases in West Coiiiit -
g, y,
WHEREAS;Virginia Ilollins-Davidson has served in.varying assignniehts in every branch ranging
from, felonies through juvenile de'lihqugncy and juvenile dependency over hef:sixteen'ryear career as
an attorney in the Department;
WIiEREAS, Virginia Hollins-Davidson has contributed as a:.role li odel.to the developmentlof the
professional lives of h&-colleagUes in the Department thr6ugh d"demonstrative.persona of...
C0111111 firm aril principled dedication to the interests of.cl>eiitS of the.Departinent ..:
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of the Co>inty.of Contra
Costa acknowledges and thanks Virginia Hollins-Davidson f6r:h6r dedicated service to.the Office of
the .Public Defender, the clients of that Office and the people of this County on the occasion of her
retirement as an emp-loye'e.of.Contra Coria County.........
PASSED and ADOPTED by"a. unanimous vote of the,Board of Supervisors members present this
I I th. day of April, 2006. . md
J N GIOIA,ehair, District 1
GA , E B. UILKOMV , District II ARY PHO, District iii
MARK DeSAULN R, 'II art- DERAL D. GLOVER, District V
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r' 0� 7 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(late shown:
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Al'I ESTER: APRIL i i,2006
JOHN CUI_l_EN, Clerk of the Board of
O a IIIIli4r =� 9 Supery sorGand Coun[ydmintstrator
Deruh('lerk
Sr`4 COTJS RESOLUTION NO.2006/187