
Career Highlights: Appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown as a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, 2012; of counsel, Leader Counsel LLP, 2011-12; partner, Browne Woods George LLP, 2009-11 and 1986-2008; partner, Dreier Stein Kahan Browne Woods George LLP, 2008-09; associate, Music, Peeler and Garrett LLP, 1984-85
By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - His father was a conservative Republican and his mother is a liberal Democrat, so as a boy, Robert B. Broadbelt III heard many familial debates about controversial political and social issues. In the 1960s and '70s, there were a lot of those.
Yet what Broadbelt, now a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, remembers most about his parents' discussions is how civil they were.