Left: Many Los Angeles County Department Heads pose for a photo at the Meet and Greet reception honoring Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas at Empress Pavilion Restaurant, Los Angeles, California, on January 29, 2009.

First Row (L to R): Raymond G. Fortner, Jr., County Counsel; Margaret Donnellan Todd, County Librarian; Mark Delgado, Countrywide Criminal Justice Coordination Committee; Robert B. Taylor, Chief Probation Officer at the Department of Probation.

Back Row (L to R): Tom Tindall, director of ISD; Janice Y Fukai, ALTERNATE PUBLIC DEFENDER; Sachi A. Hamai, Executive Officer; William T Fujioka, Chief Executive Officer; Wendy Watanabe, Auditor Controller and Dean C. Logan, Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk.

Left: Many Los Angeles County Department Heads pose for a photo at the Meet and Greet reception honoring Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas on Jan. 29, 2009.

Standing: Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran (L), M.D., Chief Medical Examinere Coroner and Steven Golightly, Director at Child Support Services Department (CSSD)

Sitting (L to R): Susan Toy Stern (2nd R), Chief Deputy, Human Resources and Philip Browning (R), Director of DPSS.