• District Court, C.D. California

  Judge

  1999 – 2010 · 11 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

• Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

  trial-jud

  1990 – 1992 · 2 yrs

Career

• Judge

  Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

  1991 – 1999 · 8 yrs

• Judge

  Los Angeles California Municipal Court

  1990 – 1991 · 1 yr

• Commissioner

  Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

  1983 – 1990 · 7 yrs

• Senior research attorney, Hon. Arleigh M. Woods

  California Court of Appeal, Second District

  1980 – 1983 · 3 yrs

• Adjunct professor

  San Fernando Valley College School of Law

  1980 – 1985 · 5 yrs

• Senior research attorney, Hon. Arthur Alarcon

  California Court of Appeal, Second District

  1978 – 1980 · 2 yrs

• Deputy city attorney

  1977 – present · 49 yrs

• Law clerk, Hon. Arthur Alarcon, Superior Court of California

  County of Los Angeles, Appellate Department

  1975 – 1977 · 2 yrs

Education