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The Board of Supervisors approved the appointment of Damon M. Brown as County Counsel after a national recruitment, bringing broad and diverse experience at the national, state and local levels.
Brown is a trial attorney and policy executive with over two decades of experience leading high-stakes litigation, regulatory enforcement and legal strategies across government and private practice.
He will lead the Office of County Counsel, the department that manages the County’s civil law needs. The office provides advisory and litigation support to the Board of Supervisors, County departments, County officers, boards, and commissions. It also represents the County in juvenile dependency matters and administers public liability claims.
Brown was most recently a Special Assistant Attorney General at the California Department of Justice, where he served as chief legal and policy advisor to Attorney General Rob Bonta on civil rights, education, labor, public safety and immigration – guiding statewide initiatives and multistate litigation that shape national enforcement priorities.
Brown managed the Attorney General office’s complex federal accountability litigation involving civil and voting rights and immigration as one of its lead strategists, working with other state attorneys general, subject matter experts and community stakeholders.
He also previously served as City Attorney for Compton where he led the city’s legal operations. His private sector experience includes senior and partnership roles at firms, where he represented public agencies and multinational corporations in complex employment litigation and labor compliance.
Brown’s civic engagement spans decades. He has served on the boards of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Constitutional Rights Foundation and is the former president of the John M. Langston Bar Association of Los Angeles and the California Association of Black Lawyers. He is an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School, where he teaches constitutional law and state and local government and mentors aspiring attorneys, instilling in them a deep commitment to justice, ethics and public service.
Brown is a graduate of Vanderbilt University Law School and the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned degrees in African American Studies and Political Science.