SCWIL Board

Carla Rodriguez is the District Attorney of Sonoma County. She was elected into office and began her term in January, 2023. Carla has been a criminal prosecutor for over 26 years, handling a wide variety of caseloads including domestic violence, elder abuse, homicide, sexual assault, environmental crimes, juvenile delinquency, and consumer protection, taking several cases to trial. She is a member of the California District Attorney’s Association and the Sonoma County Bar Association. Ms. Rodriguez is currently the Chair of the Sonoma County Bar Association Archives Committee and sits on the Roseland Community Advisory Board for Roseland Public Schools.

Kristin Horrell is a Deputy County Counsel with the Sonoma County Counsel’s Office in the County Operations, Resources + Environment Practice Group. She is a Sonoma County native and was salutatorian of the 2020 Empire College School of Law graduating class. She is a board member of Sonoma County Women in Law and a member of the Sonoma County Bar Association.

Marci Reichbach is an Attorney with the Judicial Council’s Center for Judicial Education and Research (CJER). Prior to joining the Judicial Council, she served as a full-time Assistant Professor of Legal Writing at University of San Francisco School of Law. Before teaching, she worked for ten years as a Research Attorney, first for the complex civil litigation department at San Mateo Superior Court, and more recently for the civil and probate departments at Sonoma County Superior Court. Marci also spent ten years in private practice, focusing on antitrust and securities law at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman in San Francisco, and later focusing on banking, insurance law, vendor management, and complex litigation at Friedemann Goldberg Wargo Hess. Marci has served as a Judge Pro Tem for small claims, is on the board of Sonoma County Women in Law, and is a member of the Sonoma County Bar Association’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion section, and worked on its pipeline committee to develop a mentoring program. Marci is a graduate of Stanford University (’98) and Yale Law School (’01), where she was an editor for the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism.

Lynne Stark-Slater is a Chief Deputy with the Sonoma County Public Defender's Office where she supervises the felony trial unit and represents clients on the mental health caseload. She is a proud Santa Rosa native and graduate of the Univ. of the Pacific and Empire Law, where she now teaches Criminal Procedure.

Danielle Podshadley is a civil litigation attorney and shareholder at Abbey, Weitzenberg, Warren & Emery. Danielle is deeply committed to advocating for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Verity, Sonoma County’s Sexual Assault Prevention, Intervention, & Healing Center, and she represented survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault during her time in law school at UC Davis School of Law. Danielle has two young boys and also has the privilege of serving on the Board of Directors of the Children’s Museum of Sonoma County.

Jazmin Duran is a 3L at the University of San Francisco School of Law and serves as the Senior Law Clerk at the Sonoma County Public Defender’s Office. She earned her B.S. in Criminal Justice from California State University, Los Angeles. Prior to law school, she worked at the Sonoma County Family Law Facilitator’s Office. Raised in Sonoma County, Jazmin is passionate about advocating for people and increasing access to justice. She is bilingual in Spanish and is grateful that this allows her to serve and support Sonoma County’s monolingual Spanish-speaking community.

Zaira immigrated to the United States at age five and later became the first naturalized U.S. citizen in her family. Her path to law is deeply rooted in her grandfather’s work as a farmworker and her parents’ experience as immigrants who lacked the rights they deserved. She earned a political science degree at SSU and is now a law student at MCL, committed to human rights and advocacy for immigrant families and children. Balancing law school with motherhood, Zaira is raising three children, including energetic identical twins, while also pursuing her passion for baking and coordinating weddings and celebrations through her family business, Dimas Events LLC.

Brisa Sanchez is a legal professional currently working as a legal secretary in the civil litigation group at Perry, Johnson, Anderson, Miller & Moskowitz. She is a UC Riverside alumna from the Class of 2022, where she earned a degree in Global Studies and Spanish.

As the daughter of immigrants, Brisa is deeply passionate about human rights, community engagement, and empowering women to pursue their personal and professional goals. She is committed to giving back to her community and supporting initiatives that advance and uplift women in the legal profession.

Jane Gaskell was previously a Partner at the Law Offices of Andrian, Gallenson & Gaskell, having worked as an Associate at the Andrian & Gallenson firm since 2011. She began her legal career as a Law Clerk at the Sonoma County Office of the Public Defender, and was recently appointed to serve as a Judge in the Sonoma County Superior Court by Governor Gavin Newsom. She is married to Freddie, a high school teacher, with whom she has two daughters, both currently in college, and one loving dog.