
Career Highlights: Retired February 28, 20263, Appointed to U.S. Bankruptcy Court Aug. 1, 2006; partner, the Law Offices of Efremsky & Nagal, 1989-2006; associate, Staley Jobson & Bernal, 1983.
Law School: Santa Clara University School of Law
In 2016 the city of Oakland paid close attention to a bankruptcy case to determine the fate of a notoriously blighted downtown residential hotel building known as Empyrean Towers.
After the city attorney sued her for operating the property as a public nuisance, the building owner forfeited the towers after declaring bankruptcy.
With a flock of interested parties including the mayor head... (continued)