Candidate for
Judge-Superior Court; County of Los Angeles; Office 120

• EDUCATION

Boalt Hall School of Law
University of California, Berkeley
J.D. June 1961

San Jose State University
San Jose, California
B.A. in Economics 1958, Summa Cum Laude

• ADMISSIONS TO PRACTICE

State Bar of California (1962)
United States District Court
Central and Southern Districts (1962)
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1962)
United States Supreme Court (1966)

• EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Assistant United States Attorney
April 1962-1973

Assistant Chief of the Civil Division
1974-1977

First Assistant Chief of the Civil Division
1977-1986

1986-Present Judge, Superior Court, State of California for the County of Los Angeles

Appointed June 1986, by Governor George
Deukmejian

Superior Court Assignments:

1986-Dec 1987: Trial Judge, Superior
Court, Southwest Branch, Norwalk, CA
-Presiding over civil, criminal,
probate, and family law trials

Jan 1988-Dec 1988: Law and Motion
Department, Superior Court, Central Civil
Courthouse

Jan 1989-Dec 1989: Writs and Receivers
and Law and Motion Departments, Central
Civil Courthouse

Jan 1990-1991: Supervising Judge, Writs
and Receivers and Law and Motion
Departments, Central Civil Courthouse

1992-Aug 1999: Trial Judge, Central Civil
Courthouse

Aug 1999-Present: Writs and Receivers
Department, Central District

• PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

L.A. County Bar Association, 1970-1997
Continuing Education of the Bar
Committee, 1967-1971

L.A. County Bar Minority Student Law Mentor
Program, 1991

Cal State University, L.A., Judges Extern
Program

Federal Bar Association, 1970-1986
Treasurer of L.A. Chapter in 1974

Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles,
1960's

National Association of Women's Judges

California Judges Association

Superior Court Committee Memberships:

Arbitration and Alternate Dispute
Resolution Committee, 1990-present

Settlement and Protracted Litigation
Committee, 1990-1992

L.A. County Bench and Bar Committee,
1989-1990

Judicial Orientation and Continuing
Education Committee, 1988-1993

Federal/State Court Liaison Committee,
1993

BAJI Committee, 1995-2004

Ad Hoc Committee to Standardize Local
Rules, 1996

• HONORS, AWARDS, AND OTHER RECOGNITION

Department of Justice:
1967: Meritorious Service Award
1981: Directors Award for Superior
Performance
1983-85: Member of the Executive Office,
U.S. Attorney's Office Evaluation
Team

Department of Health, Education and Welfare:
1980: Commissioner's Special Citation
1998: Certificate of Appreciation, L.A.
County Bar Association, Litigation
Section

• TEACHING, LECTURING, CONSULTING

Adjunct Professor, Trial Advocacy, Loyola Law
School, 1987-1989

Member of Faculty of College Advocacy
Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, 1974

Instructor, Department of Justice Attorney
General's Advocacy Institute Civil Trial Advocacy
Course, Washington D.C., 1974-1982

Lecturer and Panel Member at various Department of
Justice Programs re Government Tort Litigation,
1981-1985

Rutter Group "Discovery" 1988 (Panelist 10/88)
"Summary Judgment and Summary Adjudication of
Issues" (Panelist 6/95)

CJER 1989 Civil Law and Practice Institute for
Trial Court Judges "Wrongful Termination" (Lecturer)

ABTL "The Eighth Floor 1989: Law, Motion, Writs
and Receivers" (Panelist 2/15/89)

ABTL "Law and Motion 1990 + New Faces, New Rules"
(Panelist 2/13/90)

ABTL Eighteenth Annual Seminar: "Cross-Examination
of Parties" (Panelist 10/91)

CEB Program 11/91 "Injunctions: Why, When and How"
(Moderator)

LATLA Seminar on Fast Track (Panelist 7/92)

Continuing Legal Education Program, L.A. County
Bar, Labor and Employment Law Section
"Trade Secrets, Covenants Not to Compete and the
Mobile Employee" (Panelist 5/14/95)

Continuing Legal Education Program, L.A. County
Bar, Litigation Inn of Courts Sections
"How to Deal with Difficult Opposing Counsel"
(Panelist 3/95)
"Do's and Don'ts of Jury Instruction"
(Panelist 4/97)

San Fernando Bar Association
"Image of the Legal Profession" (Panelist 9/95)

L.A. County Bar Association, Litigation Section
"From Judge to Jury" (Panelist 2/98)

L.A. County Bar Association, Land Use, Planning and
Environmental Law Section
"CEQA Writs and Other Land Use Writs"
(Lecturer 10/01)

L.A. Lawyers Club
Tips from the Bench on Dept 85 (10/14/01)

L.A. County Bar Association, Professional and Post-
Judgment Remedies Section
"Breakfast With the Experts" Program
(Panelist 2001-2006)

California Receivers Forum
"Receivers Versus Provisional Directors"
(Panelist 1/04)

Association of Environmental Professionals-
L.A. Chapter
CEQA Litigation (Lecture 2/06)

Since 1994 to date participant in Cal State L.A.
program founded by Hon. Norman Epstein, whereby
each year a number of undergraduate students
interested in a law career get credit for externing
with judges of the Superior Court.

Consultant, Bancroft-Whitney, California Civil
Practice 1992-94

Consultant, CJER
"Civil Proceedings Before Trial" and "Trial"
(1994-present)

Article
"Practicing in the Writs and Receiver's Department"
Metropolitan News Enterprise,
New Admittee Handbook, 2001