Casey Gwinn
| Casey Gwinn | |
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| City Attorney of San Diego | |
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In office 1996–2004 |
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| Preceded by | John W. Witt |
| Succeeded by | Mike Aguirre |
| Personal details | |
| Education |
Stanford University (B.A.) University of California, Los Angeles (J.D.) |
| Profession |
Lawyer Politician |
Casey Gwinn is an American attorney who served as the elected City Attorney of San Diego, California from 1996 through 2004. He is credited as a pioneer of the Family Justice Center concept, under which multiple agencies work together under one roof to provide services to victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse.
Gwinn grew up on the campus of Mt. Hermon Christian Conference Center, a facility in the Santa Cruz Mountains of Northern California; his father, a Congregational minister, was director of the center. Gwinn graduated from San Lorenzo Valley High School in 1978. He then obtained a political science degree from Stanford University and a law degree from UCLA.
He went to work for the City Attorney's office right after law school. Starting in 1985 he led the Domestic Violence Unit within the City Attorney's office. He became known as a hard-line prosecutor of domestic violence cases, winning 19 of his first 21 cases and eventually prosecuting more than 10,000 such cases.
As City Attorney he led the creation in 2002 of the multi-agency San Diego Family Justice Center serving victims of domestic violence and their children. He had first proposed the concept in 1989. He was also strongly against pornography, saying "I have seen a very strong link between pornography and child abuse and sexual assault as a prosecutor for many years."
After being term-limited out of his position as City Attorney in 2004, he helped to lead President George W. Bush's Family Justice Center Initiative, which over the period 2004–2006 helped to open fifteen Family Justice Centers modeled on the one in San Diego.
He continues to be active in the family justice movement. He is president of Alliance for HOPE International, formerly the Family Justice Center Alliance. Its goal is to "meet the needs of survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and their children."
In 2015 he published a book, Cheering for the Children, in which he contends that childhood trauma is the number one public health issue in the country.
He is married and has three children.
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