Lance Ito

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lance Ito
Occupation	Judge
Date Of Birth	Aug 2, 1950(1950-08-02)
Age	74
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Leo

Lance Ito Biography

Lance Ito is one of the most popular and richest Judge who was born on August 2, 1950 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Ito was born in Los Angeles, to Jim Ito and Toshi Ito. Both his parents were kept in Japanese American internment camps with their families during World War II. Ito was enrolled in Sunday School at the Mount Hollywood Congregational Church. Ito attended John Marshall High School, where he was student body president and received the Scholar Athlete award in 1968. He earned his bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972, and his J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall in 1975. He then joined the Los Angeles district attorney’s office in 1977, working in the hardcore gang unit and the organized crime and terror unit, among others.

In 1981, he married Margaret Ann York, the first woman to attain the rank of Deputy Chief in the Los Angeles Police Department and that department’s highest ranking woman officer when she retired in 2002. The two met while at an Eagle Rock murder scene.

Lance Ito Net Worth

Lance Ito is one of the richest Judge from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lance Ito 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lance Allan Ito (born August 2, 1950) is an American retired judge best known for presiding over the criminal trial for the O. J. Simpson murder case, held in the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1995.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Lance Ito Dating?

According to our records, Lance Ito married to Margaret Ann York. As of December 1, 2023, Lance Ito’s is not dating anyone.

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Ito declined to give interviews regarding the O.J. Simpson murder trial because ethical guidelines for California trial-court judges forbid commenting on pending matters or matters likely to come before the courts. He has noted his disbelief that public interest in the trial extended through the “turgid” DNA section of the trial. He has used his status to work on issues of judicial reform, such as increasing the number of translators and enforcing rules for foreign national defendants in the court. Los Angeles County announced on April 17, 2012, that Ito’s courtroom, along with 55 others, would be closed due to budget cuts. Ito retired in 2015.

Facts & Trivia

Lars Ranked on the list of most popular Judge. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Lance Ito celebrates birthday on August 2 of every year.

Are Lance Ito and Peggy York still married?

York died Oct. 17 at age 80. York had been married to retired Superior Court Judge Lance Ito , who presided over O.J.

Is Lance Ito still a judge?

Judge Ito’s retirement Judge Lance Ito retired in 2015 after presiding on more than 500 cases after the O.J. Simpson trial.

Did Judge Ito think OJ did?

And we got to work it out. Kenneth Choi (Judge Lance Ito): I think that the hard evidence points to the fact that he did it. And there’s so much damning evidence that he had to have done it.

Did Ito's wife know Fuhrman?

O. J. During the trial, the prosecution requested that Ito recuse himself when it came to light that his wife, Margaret York, had been detective Mark Fuhrman’s superior officer in the past. Fuhrman had been called to testify by the prosecution regarding his discovery of evidence in the case.

Why did Mark Fuhrman plead the 5th?

He said that he pleaded the Fifth Amendment after he couldn’t get the prosecution to call him to the stand for a redirect prior to the tapes’ being played for the jury. Once the tapes came out, Fuhrman has said, his reputation as a credible witness would have been nearly beyond rehabilitation.