U.S. Southern District of California
Career Highlights: Appointed U.S. District judge by President Barack Obama, 2012; U.S. Magistrate Judge, Southern District, 2005-12; partner, associate, DLA Piper, formerly Gray Cary Ware & Friedenrich, and Gray Cary Ames & Frye, San Diego, 1988-2005.
Law School: The University of Michigan Law School, 1988
Southern District Court of California
Career Highlights: Appointed U.S. District judge by President Barack Obama, 2012; U.S. Magistrate Judge, Southern District, 2005-12; partner, associate, DLA Piper, formerly Gray Cary Ware & Friedenrich, and Gray Cary Ames & Frye, San Diego, 1988-2005.
Law School: The University of Michigan Law School, 1988
Southern District Court of California
By Pat Broderick
Daily Journal Staff Writer SAN DIEGO - It was the post-Watergate '70s, and many of Cathy Ann Bencivengo's fellow high-schoolers were feeling mighty cynical about the government. But not the young woman who was then known as Cathy Ann Palumbo. "I wanted to be a senator," recalled Bencivengo, 50, now a U.S. magistrate judge in San Diego. "I believed that if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem." ... (continued)
Daily Journal Staff Writer SAN DIEGO - It was the post-Watergate '70s, and many of Cathy Ann Bencivengo's fellow high-schoolers were feeling mighty cynical about the government. But not the young woman who was then known as Cathy Ann Palumbo. "I wanted to be a senator," recalled Bencivengo, 50, now a U.S. magistrate judge in San Diego. "I believed that if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem." ... (continued)
