Out of the 3 new hires, Deputy DA Buckley-Stein has an impressive resume and the qualifications to join the current team of experienced prosecutors

 

(Photo from PennState Alumni website)

Listed below is a bio from the Penn State Alumni Association for Ms. Rebecca Ann Buckley-Stein. She is one of the three new hires at the Humboldt County District Attorney office. From November 2022 to September 2024, Ms. Buckley-Stein was managing attorney at Legal Services of Northern California in Eureka until she was started at the DA's office.

She already had a plus because I am also a former Pennsylvanian who moved to California but it is her bio and experience which is impressive. Whoever recruited her or made the decision to hire Ms. Buckley-Stein finally picked someone with experience and specifically the kind needed for the bulk of cases that need a prosecutor with her background.

I did a post on the new hires two days ago. I wrote in that post,"given Ms Buckley-Stein's resume, she should be in court with Deputy DAs Roger Rees, Trent Timm or Whitney Timm."

https://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2024/10/three-new-deputy-das-hired-by-humboldt.html?m=1

Bio from Penn State Alumni Association website:

Rebecca Ann Buckley-Stein is a staff attorney with the California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. in Delano, California. She fights for the rights of low-income individuals and their families and has a reputation as a lawyer who aggressively fights for her clients’ civil liberties. Whether she is defending public housing tenants facing wrongful evictions or affirmatively suing public schools for racially discriminatory policies, she seeks justice for low-income rural Californians.

After law school, Buckley-Stein worked at Martinez, Aguilasocho, and Lynch APLC representing farmworkers who were victims of human trafficking and helping to facilitate one of the first Farm Labor Human Trafficking cases prosecuted in California.

As a law student, Buckley-Stein received the Miller Pro Bono Program’s Public Interest and Pro Bono Advocate award. During her second year in law school, Buckley-Stein clerked for the Honorable Judge Michael H. Sholley of the 17th Judicial District of Pennsylvania. She was a senior editor of the Journal of Law and International Affairs and a leader of the Agricultural Law Society and the Public Interest Law Fund.

Outside of the classroom, Buckley-Stein worked with Nailah Williams ’15 PSL to organize Penn State Law’s Alternative Spring Break, which sends law students to agencies throughout the U.S. for one week of volunteer service. Buckley-Stein and Justin Bish ’15 PSL co-founded the Penn State Law Veterans and Service Members’ Legal Clinic, which helps fill the critical gap between the demand for specialized veterans’ legal assistance and the limited supply of services in Pennsylvania.

Buckley-Stein is a member of the Penn State Alumni Association and lives in Bakersfield, California.