Judge Cowett '72 Showered With Awards
The Honorable Patricia Yim Cowett '72 is the 2008 recipient of the Joan Dempsey Klein Award and the Lawyers Club of San Diego Belva Lockwood Award. Judge Cowett has been a trailblazer as an attorney and judge. In April 2008, she celebrated her retirement after nearly three decades on the bench. Then-Governor Jerry Brown appointed Judge Cowett to the Municipal Court in 1979. In 1999, she was elevated to the Superior Court.