Professional Organizations: Selected Honorary, Elected & Appointed Positions

  • Commissioner, The State Bar of California, Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation (appointed by The State Bar Board of Governors May 2000 - February 29, 2004).
     
  • Delegate, California Criminal Justice Leaders Delegation to Cuba (sponsored by People To People Ambassador Program, Spokane, WA), Professor Gerald Uelmen, University of Santa Clara School of Law, Delegation Leader (December 6 - 14, 2002).
     
  • Settlement officer for California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Seven (1994 - 95) and for Los Angeles County Bar Association's Second District-wide Mediation Project (1996 - 2004).
     
  • California Academy of Appellate Lawyers (elected 1979; President
    1988 - 89).
     
  • Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation (elected 1989).
     
  • Member, First Executive Committee, Litigation Section, The State Bar of California; supervised its first publication, Litigation in Brief (1983 - 86).
     
  • Member, Board of Governors' Ad Hoc Committee re Civil Litigation, The State Bar of California. This special committee studied the need for, and recommended the creation of, the Litigation Section of The State Bar of California (1983).
     
  • Member, Board of Governors, Association of Business Trial Lawyers
    (1982 - 84).



     

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