Here's a brief report out of Los Angeles. The City Council has voted unanimously to approve the appointment of former U.S. Atty. Debra Wong Yang to the city Board of Police Commissioners.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa nominated Yang, who is also a former Superior Court judge, in August.

Yang joins the commission at a time when it is searching for a replacement for outgoing Police Chief William J. Bratton.

She fills a seat on the five-member panel vacated by former commission President Anthony Pacheco, who left to pursue a legal career. 

According to her bio on wikipedia:

Yang led the largest United States Attorney's Office outside of Washington, D.C. The office serves the approximately 18 million people who live inLos Angeles County, Orange County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, Ventura County, Santa Barbara County and San Luis Obispo County.

Yang served as an Assistant United States Attorney for approximately seven years prior to her judicial career. As a federal prosecutor, she handled violent crimes, white-collar crimes, international money laundering, arson and computer crimes. As an Assistant United States Attorney, Yang successfully prosecuted a number of high-profile cases, including a Glendale arson investigator convicted of setting fires throughout the state of California; the first federal carjacking case in California; the kidnapping of a local real estate agent; and a computer hacker who received what was then the longest prison sentence for computer intrusion.

Central District of California on November 11, 2006 to join Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has raised questions about Yang's departure in light of the subsequent firing of seven US Attorneys. Yang's office had opened an investigation into the relationship between Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) and a lobbyist five months before she left to join the law firm that represented Rep. Lewis.^[1][2] [3] Yang has denied that any pressure was put on her to resign.^[4]