Richard M. Mosk

Richard M. Mosk (May 18, 1939 – April 17, 2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the California Courts of Appeal, Second District. Early life, education, and military service Mosk was born in Los Angeles, California, and was the son of Helen Edna (Mitchell) and Stanley Mosk, a former California Attorney General and state Supreme Court Justice. He graduated from Stanford University, with great distinction and Harvard Law School, cum laude. While at Stanford, he earned three athletic letters. After military service, he was a member of the staff of the Warren Commission (President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy) and a clerk to California Supreme Court Justice Mathew Tobriner. Legal career Mosk was a litigation partner in a large Los Angeles law firm. He was a Special Deputy Federal Public Defender, 1975-76. Mosk was the United States appointed judge on the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal when it was formed and served from 1981-1984. He was a substitute judge on that Tribunal from 1984 to 1997. In 1997, he was reappointed to that Tribunal and served until 2001, when he was appointed as an associate justice of the California Court of Appeal.