R. Samuel Paz of Alhambra will be...

R. Samuel Paz of Alhambra will be honored today at the annual awards fiesta of the Hispanic Advisory Council to the Los Angeles Police Commission.

Paz, an attorney, has been in the forefront of litigating police misconduct cases since he graduated from USC Law School in 1974, a council spokesman said. He is a member of the national American Civil Liberties Union board of directors.

The council works with the commission to develop more effective and responsive law enforcement for the city. Its recommendations have covered such topics as officer-involved shootings, promotion of Latinos in the Police Department and policies dealing with immigrants and citizen complaints.

Elizabeth Tatum of Pasadena, a soprano, has won first place in the scholarship competition of the Los Angeles-based BEEM Foundation for the Advancement of Music. Tatum, a graduate of the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music, won $1,000.

Dr. Walter M. Fierson of Arcadia has been elected chairman of the Section on Ophthalmology of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Fierson, who has practices in Arcadia and Pasadena, is an assistant clinical professor of ophthalmology at USC and the pediatric ophthalmologist for the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte. He graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Peter Hoffman, vice president of Sierra Autocars, is the new president of the Monrovia Chamber of Commerce. Other officers are Aziz Amiri, general manager of Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, vice president, and Norman Johnson, vice president and manager of Glendale Federal Bank in Monrovia, treasurer.

Barbara James, finance director of South Pasadena, has been awarded a certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting by the Government Finance Officers Assn. of the United States and Canada. James was recognized for the city’s comprehensive annual financial report. The association is a nonprofit professional group serving 12,300 government finance professions.

Jeanette Bullock, interim executive director of the Pomona Valley chapter of the American Red Cross, has been named the chapter’s executive director. She replaces Dan Bent, who left in August to become executive director of the Greater Long Beach chapter.