Profile
Tami J. Buscho
City: Sacramento
State Bar of California Admission Date: December 16, 1980
Other Jurisdictions Admission Dates:
- United States District Court, Eastern District, December 1980
- United States Supreme Court, May 1995
Education:
- J.D. University of California, Davis, 1979
- A.B., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 1976
Employment:
- Law Office of Tami J. Buscho, July 1996 – present
- Sacramento County Public Defender, January – December 2005
- Central California Appellate Program, February 1988 – January 1996
- State Public Defender, State of California, July 1986 – January 1988
- Yolo County Public Defender, May 1985 – June 1986
- In private practice as an associate, partner or sole practitioner with emphasis on criminal defense, family or civil rights, 1980 – 1985
State Bar Activities:
- Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation , member, 2012 – present
- District 2 member of Resolutions Committee, Conference of Delegates, 1996-1998
- Sergeant-at-arms, Conference of Delegates, 1986 – 1988
- CEB, Advisory Committee for Criminal Law Procedure and Practice (First edition)
Local Bar Activities:
- Sacramento County Bar Association, member 1985 through present
- Member, Bar Council, 1993 – 1995, 2000 – 2001
- Chair, Awards committee, 2001
- Member, SCBA Charity Golf Tournament committee, 2001
- Member, SCBA Pictorial Directory committee, 2000
- Member, Special VLSP Task Force, 1992
- Membership Committee, 1992 – 1993
- Member, Judicial Review Committee, 1992 – 1993
- Judiciary Committee Member, 1993 – 1995, 1997 – 2000
- Delegate to State Bar, 1987 – 1999
- Including Chair or co-chair of SCBA Criminal Law subcommittee, 1988 – 1997
- SCBA Delegation Whip 1994 – 1995
- Volunteers in Parole, 1978 – 1989 (Volunteer of the Year, 1988)
- Anthony M. Kennedy Chapter American Inns of Court, 1999 – 2001
- Voluntary Legal Services Program, Advisor, Clinics 1998-2002, 2006-2008
- Women Lawyers of Sacramento, 1984 – present
- President, 1993
- Executive Committee (Served one year terms as Treasurer, Secretary, Vice- president, President and Past President) 1990 – 1994
- Member, WLS Delegation to State Bar Conference 1983 – 1986
- Board of Directors, 1985 – 1988, 1990 – 1994
- Chair or co-chair of following committees: Publicity/Community Relations, Judicial Evaluations, Bar Delgations Inaugural Oktober-Art-Fest
- WLS Representative to Sacramento County Bar Council
- WLS representative to CWL conference of Affiliates
- California Women Lawyers, member 1986 to present (Lifetime Member)
- Board of directors, 1987 – 1989
- Treasurer, 1988 – 1989
- Recipient, President’s Award for Outstanding Service, 1988
Professional Memberships:
- California Public Defenders Association, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
Activities:
- Member of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento, 2000 – present:
- Various committees and board of trustees; assistant teacher for religious education and youth advisor for senior high conferences.
- Past volunteer for local charitable organizations such as Tour de Cure (American Diabetes Association) and Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center