Los Angeles County Superior Court Judicial Officer Cynthia Loo has been on the Superior Court bench for more than eight years. She currently hears juvenile criminal / juvenile delinquency cases in the Eastlake Juvenile Court in East Los Angeles. Prior to that she was assigned to the Compton courthouse for approximately three years where she heard both juvenile criminal and family law matters.

Being a good judge is more than just locking up criminals -- a judge is a public servant and must treat all who come before him or her with respect, patience and fairness. In an article in which she was profiled in "LA Youth," it concluded, "One day in one court isn't enough for me to understand the whole court system, but by the time we left, I had learned a lot about the mercy a judge can have. Judge Loo wasn't only fair; she was respectful, and she wanted to help teenagers live meaningful lives."

In January 2005 she received “Juvenile Court Judge of the Year” from the Los Angeles County Juvenile Court’s Bar Association. On April 26, 2008, the Los Angeles Times noted “she earns high marks from attorneys on all sides for her handling of juvenile cases,…Loo is an asset to juvenile court, an assignment that ought to be highly sought but seldom is.” Cynthia has been a volunteer law professor at the People's College of Law (PCL) for the past three years. Aimed at addressing inequities in law and society, PCL is a non-profit law school that trains socially conscious community lawyers and was opened in part to give those historically denied access to legal training, such as working people, women, and people of color, an opportunity to go to law school. Tuition is affordable because PCL's professors donate their salaries back to the law school and are essentially unpaid volunteers.

While in law school, Cynthia was a legal intern at AYUDA, a non-profit agency assisting low-income individuals in immigration, domestic violence, and landlord tenant matters. She also was a law clerk at the ACLU. Following her graduation from USC in 1990, she was a law clerk for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

After passing the bar, Cynthia worked for several years representing abused and neglected children in juvenile dependency matters for the Children’s Law Center of Los Angeles.

Prior to getting on the bench full-time, she also volunteered with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles’s Unlawful Detainer Equal Access Project, as well as the Los Angeles County Bar Barristers Domestic Violence Project.

She continues to be extremely involved in many women and minority bar associations. Currently she is on the Governing Boards of the California Asian-Pacific American Judges Association; the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles (WLALA), where she is co-chair of the Criminal Justice; the Asian Pacific American Bar Association (APABA) and the Asian Pacific American Women's Law Alliance (APAWLA). She was formerly on the State Bar's Access and Fairness Standing Committee on Women in the Law and the well regarded Court's Working Group of the State Bar's Diversity Pipeline Task Force.

Cynthia also been requested to submit articles to judicial magazines such as Gavel to Gavel, the Los Angeles County Superior Court's Judicial Magazine; and The Bench, the official magazine of the California Judge's Association. Most recently, Los Angeles Lawyer, the publication of the LA County Bar, requested she contribute an article re diversity on the bench. She has been asked by the Los Angeles County Superior Court and other groups to speak regarding domestic violence, gang violence, California “Three Strikes” Law, juvenile justice, teaching law, diversity in the legal profession and diversity on the bench.

The distinguishing feature of her background is not only the extensive judicial experience she has gained over the eight years of being on the bench, but a demonstrated extensive history of community service and trying to make a difference.

Cynthia was born in Los Angeles, California. Her parents Tom and Mona Loo currently reside in Malibu, California. Cynthia’s father, and her two younger sisters are all lawyers. All are graduates of the University of Southern California School of Law.