Background
"I not only was born across the tracks. I was born on the wrong side of that place across the tracks,” Earl Broady once said.
"I not only was born across the tracks. I was born on the wrong side of that place across the tracks,” Earl Broady once said.
A senior Los Angeles police officer who went on to become a Deputy Doctorate.A., and then a judge. A native of Los Angeles, Earl Broady began working as a janitor at age 13. He is also remembered as a generous philanthropist.
Earl Broady began his career in criminal law by joining the Los Angeles Police Department in 1927.
He was one of the first African American police officers to be elevated to the rank of Lieutenant and Watch Commander at the Los Angeles Police Force. Judge Broady attended night classes at University of Southern California and the Los Angeles College of Law.
He left the LAPD in 1944 to practice law. He was later elected president of the Criminal Courts Bar Association of Los Los Angeles
Prior to taking the bench, Judge Broady served as Chief Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County.
He was appointed on June 7, 1965 and served as a judge on the Los Angeles Superior Court until he retired in 1978. Judge Broady also served on the McCone Commission, which studied the causes behind the Watts riots.