• District Court, C.D. California

  Judge

  2007 – present · 19 yrsAppointed by George W. Bush

Career

• Judge

  Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

  1996 – 2007 · 11 yrs

• Judge

  Los Angeles California Municipal Court

  1993 – 1996 · 3 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Central District of California

  1991 – 1993 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1989 – 1991 · 2 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Central District of California

  1982 – 1989 · 7 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Stanley N. Barnes, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  1979 – present · 47 yrs

• Assistant professor of law

  University of Tennessee College of Law

  1979 – 1982 · 3 yrs

• Private practice

  1977 – 1979 · 2 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Stanley N. Barnes, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  1976 – 1977 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1975 – 1976 · 1 yr

Education