Associate Justice, Second Appellate District BAR ADMISSION: Admitted to California Bar in 1975 EDUCATION: Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., J.D. 1975. Editor, law review; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, B.A. with honors in international relations 1970. PROFESSIONAL LEGAL BACKGROUND: USA Petroleum Company, Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary, 1981 and 1982. Advised operational departments (credit, personnel, real estate, finance, refining, lubricants, etc.), negotiated contracts and settlements, handled in-house litigation, supervised outside counsel, etc. Schwartz, Alschuler & Grossman (now Alschuler, Grossman & Pines), 1980-1981. Construction defect, banking and other business litigation. McCutchen, Black, Verleger & Shea (now Los Angeles office of Cleveland’s, Baker & Hostetler), 1975-1980. Business litigation involving oil, maritime, banking and high technology industries. United States Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 1973-1975. Legislative analyst on environmental/natural resource issues. Prepared analyses for Congress of pending or proposed legislation affecting the responsibilities of Interior. JUDICIAL BACKGROUND: Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal, 1995 to present. Appointed by Governor Wilson, confirmed by Justices Lucas and Klein, and Attorney General Lungren; Judge (1986-1995, appointed by Governor Deukmejian) and Commissioner (1982-1986, elected by sitting Superior Court judges and appointed by Judge Eagleson), Los Angeles Superior Court. Approx. seven years in law and motion and writs and receivers, approx. six years in trial departments, five in fast track; Supervising Judge of Law Departments, 1990. Member of executive committee, judicial education committee, alternative dispute resolution committee, multi-party construction defect committee. Consultant to BAJI-CALJIC committees 1986. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/ASSOCIATIONS/AFFILIATIONS: Board of Governors, Association of Business Trial Lawyers; Executive Committee, Litigation Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA); Executive Committee, Intellectual Property and Entertainment Committee LACBA; Executive Committee, Pre-Judgment Remedies Committee, LACBA; Founding officer of LACBA Inn of Court; reporter for State Bar Lis Pendens Task Force (committee drafted new lis pendens law now in effect; as reporter, drafted code commentary now in annotated code); State Bar ADR Committee subcommittees on education and private judging; LA5 Rotary Club 1986 to present, Board of Directors 1991-1992. EDUCATIONAL/PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS: Graduated with honors from undergraduate school; selected for law review at Georgetown based on grades; book award at Georgetown for performance in constitutional law course. PROFESSIONAL TEACHING/EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES: Adjunct Professor, Loyola Law School, 1992 to present; regular lecturer for Rutter Group and other MCLE providers, judges association meetings, law schools and bar associations (have lectured or spoken an estimated 200 times in the last 16 years); California Judicial College 1983 and 1987; National Mass Torts Conference 1994; NYU School of Judicial Administration Appellate Judges Seminar 1997 and 1998; Association of Attorney Mediators mediation training program 1995; numerous other judicial education programs. COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES: Raising children (soccer, baseball, basketball, water polo, Indian Guides, Indian Princesses, camping trips, school activities, etc.); Los Angeles Rotary Club (Director 1991-1992); founding officer of LACBA Inn of Court (program to train young lawyers).