
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2009; assistant U.S. attorney, Los Angeles, 1991-2009; associate, Rosen, Wachtell & Gilbert, Los Angeles, 1985-1991; associate and researcher, Reich, Adell & Crost 1983-1985
Law School: Stanford Law School, 1983
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LANCASTER - Family law attorneys who frequent the Antelope Valley Courthouse have a name for those bewildering decisions that seem to come out of left field every once in a while: "raised-eyebrow decisions."
Rulings that leave them scratching their heads and grumbling in the cafeteria usually come from judges with little, if any, family-law experience. Attorneys cringe when they learn they are going to h... (continued)