• Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  Judge

  2000 – present · 26 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

• District Court, C.D. California

  Judge

  1994 – 2000 · 6 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

• Municipal Court of California, County of Los Angeles

  trial-jud

  1981 – 1994 · 13 yrsAppointed by Edmund Gerald Brown

Career

• Judge

  Los Angeles California Municipal Court

  1981 – 1994 · 13 yrs

• acting executive director and director of litigation

  1980 – 1981 · 1 yr

• deputy director of litigation

  1979 – 1980 · 1 yr

• director of litigation

  1978 – 1979 · 1 yr

• Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles

  California

  1976 – 1981 · 5 yrs

• senior counsel

  1976 – 1978 · 2 yrs

• Staff attorney

  Western Center on Law and Poverty

  1974 – 1976 · 2 yrs

• Staff attorney

  California Rural Legal Assistance

  1972 – 1974 · 2 yrs