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University of California-Los Angeles

269 U.S. federal judges studied here. See where it ranks among law schools by judges produced.

Judges

Judge	Degree	Role	Year
David Welford Williams	A.B.	Judge	1934
William Percival Gray	A.B.	Judge	1934
Laughlin Edward Waters Sr.	A.B.	Judge	1939
Spencer Mortimer Williams	A.B.	Judge	1943
Harry Pregerson	B.A.	Judge	1947
Dorothy Wright Nelson	A.B.	Judge	1950
Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi	B.S.	Judge	1953
James A. Kaddo	Political Science	Judge	1956
Atsushi Wallace Tashima	B.A.	Judge	1958
Arthur Gilbert	English Literature	Presiding Justice	1960
Gary L. Taylor	A.B.	Judge	1960
Frances Rothschild		Presiding Justice	1963
Richard D. Aldrich		Associate Justice	1963
William D. Stewart		Judge	1963
Jeffrey T. Miller	B.A.	Judge	1964
Steven Zalkind Perren		Associate Justice	1964
Richard H. Kirschner	History, cum laude	Judge	1965
David O. Carter	B.A.	Judge	1967
Judith Lynnette Ondrasik Haller	summa cum laude	Associate Justice	1967
Nanette Kay Laughrey	B.A.	Judge	1967
Patrick Thomas Madden		Judge	1967
Walter Lee Gorelick	History	Judge	1967
Fumiko Hachiya Wasserman		Judge	1968
Laurence David Rubin		Presiding Justice	1968
Michael Paul Linfield	Philosophy, cum laude	Judge	1968
Richard David Fybel		Associate Justice	1968
Susan Bryant-Deason		Judge	1968
Robert Charles Vanderet		Judge	1969
Alan Gail Perkins		Judge	1970
Gregory W. Jones		Judge	1970
Percy Anderson	A.B.	Judge	1970
Stephen David Kaus	Political Science	Judge	1970
George H. King	A.B.	Judge	1971
Jay M. Bloom		Judge	1971
John Morgan Davis	Psychology	Judge	1971
Julian W. Bailey Jr.	Economics	Judge	1971
Kenneth Paul Barnum		Judge	1971
Alex Kozinski	A.B.	Judge	1972
Andrew J. Guilford	A.B.	Judge	1972
Bruce Gen Iwasaki	Psychology and English	Judge	1972
Dean D. Pregerson	B.A.	Judge	1972
Edmund Willcox Clarke Jr.		Judge	1972
Howard Chester Horn Jr.		Judge	1972
Judith M. Ashmann-Gerst		Associate Justice	1972
Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian	B.A. Political Science, B.A. Psychology	Chief Justice	1972
Richard S. Kemalyan		Judge	1972
Christopher Bradley Marshall	American Studies	Judge	1973
Lourdes Gillespie Baird	B.A.	Judge	1973
Roger W. Boren		Presiding Justice	1973
Richard M. King		Judge	1974
Sandra Lynn Margulies	magna cum laude	Associate Justice	1974
Wilfred J. Schneider Jr.	Political Science	Judge	1974
David G. Brown		Judge	1975
Gary Michael Pohlson		Judge	1975
Lori Robin Behar		Judge	1975
Ralph Christopher Hofer		Judge	1975
Robert Denis McGuiness		Judge	1975
Rocky J Baio		Judge	1975
Gloria L. White-Brown		Judge	1976
Kim McLane Wardlaw	A.B.	Judge	1976
Marcelita Valerie Haynes		Judge	1976
Norman Perry Tarle		Judge	1976
Randall J. Sherman	Mathematics, cum laude	Judge	1976
Robert Steven Lapham		Judge	1976
Scott Leslie Tedmon		Judge	1976
Shellie Laurel Samuels		Judge	1976
Thomas Lyle Willhite Jr.		Associate Justice	1976
William David Claster		Judge	1976
Audrey B. Collins		Associate Justice	1977
Daniel Frederic Link		Judge	1977
Douglas Jun Hatchimonji		Judge	1977
Gregory Wilson Alarcon		Judge	1977
Marc Dempsey Gross		Judge	1977
Mark Wood Snauffer		Associate Justice	1977
Roger Alan Luebs		Judge	1977
Craig Jordan Mitchell		Judge	1978
David A. Rosen	Communication Studies	Judge	1978
Michael H. Simon	B.A.	Judge	1978
Robert Scott Wada		Judge	1978
Jose R. Benavides		Judge	1979
Linda Stockfish Marks	English, Film	Judge	1979
Louise Suzette Clover		Judge	1979
Raul Anthony Sahagun		Judge	1979
Richard James Burdge Jr.		Judge	1979
Tara Reilly	Psychology, Sociology	Judge	1979
Craig Grant Riemer		Judge	1980
Dale Alan Drozd	J.D.	Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge	1980
Dennis James Landin		Judge	1980
Robert Steven Harrison		Judge	1980
Rosendo Peña Jr.		Associate Justice	1980
Thomas Jesus Griego	Political Science	Judge	1980
Thomas Stephen Garza		Judge	1980
William Steven Dato		Associate Justice	1980
Corey Scott Cramin		Judge	1981
Dolly Maizie Gee	B.A.	Judge	1981
Joscelyn Carol Jones		Judge	1981
Kimberly Kay Menninger		Judge	1981
Mark Eugene Cullers		Judge	1981
Mark H. Epstein		Judge	1981
Benjamin Franklin Coats		Judge	1982
Beth S. Jordan	Political Science, summa cum laude	Judge	1982
Debra Leah Losnick		Judge	1982
Lisa Kathleen Sepe-Wiesenfeld		Judge	1982
Scott Teel Millington		Judge	1982
Susan Marie Breall	high honors	Judge	1982
Aaron Hokin Katz	Political Science	Judge	1983
Christopher L. Taylor		Judge	1983
Cormac J. Carney	B.A.	Judge	1983
David A. Thompson		Associate Justice	1983
Gregory Keosian		Judge	1983
Gregory Warren Pollack		Judge	1983
James Edward Rogan		Judge	1983
Lori Elaine Pegg		Judge	1983
Louie L. Vega		Judge	1983
Michael Arthur Camber	B.A. History	Judge	1983
Daniel S. Murphy	Political Science	Judge	1984
Dorothy Lynn Shubin		Judge	1984
Keith H. Borjón		Judge	1984
Laura Jean Birkmeyer		Judge	1984
Laura Whitcomb Halgren		Judge	1984
Mitchell Lee Beckloff		Judge	1984
Patricia Jo Titus Turner		Judge	1984
Stephanie M. Bowick	English	Judge	1984
Carin Teru Fujisaki		Associate Justice	1985
Debra Ann Cole-Hall		Judge	1985
Mildred Escobedo		Judge	1985
Beverly Reid O'Connell	B.A.	Judge	1986
Beverly Reid O'Connell		Judge	1986
Gregorio Roman		Judge	1986
Joe Teel Perez		Judge	1986
Karen Linnea Robinson		Judge	1986
Ray Gerald Jurado		Judge	1986
Roberto Longoria		Judge	1986
Ross Charles Moody		Judge	1986
Cheri Thi Pham	Economics, summa cum laude	Judge	1987
Clare Marie Maier	Political Science, summa cum laude	Judge	1987
Colin T. Bowen		Judge	1987
David Sotelo		Judge	1987
Michael John O'Gara		Judge	1987
Rob Bautista Villeza		Judge	1987
Suzanne Irene Gazzaniga		Judge	1987
Tammy Chung Ryu		Judge	1987
Angel M. Bermudez		Judge	1988
Geoffrey Matthew Howard		Judge	1988
Gordon Bruce Burns		Associate Justice	1988
Olivia Rosales	English Literature	Judge	1988
Stanley Blumenfeld Jr.	cum laude	Judge	1988
Audra M. Mori		Judge	1989
David Michael Hirsch		Judge	1989
Elaine Wendy Mandel		Judge	1989
Richard Curtis Darwin	Political Science	Judge	1989
Upinder Singh Kalra		Judge	1989
Charles J. Koosed		Judge	1990
Cindy Seeley Hendrickson		Judge	1990
Elizabeth R. Feffer		Judge	1990
Hilleri G. Merritt	cum laude	Judge	1990
Joseph Martin Quinn		Judge	1990
Katrina West		Judge	1990
Raymond T. Chen	B.S.	Judge	1990
Victoria B. Wilson		Judge	1990
Andrew G. Liu	Philosophy	Judge	1991
Jayne Chong-Soon Lee		Judge	1991
Mark Anthony Young		Judge	1991
Alan Boyd Honeycutt		Judge	1992
Efrain Matthew Aceves	Sociology	Judge	1992
Lynn Healey Scaduto		Judge	1992
Nicole C. Bershon		Judge	1992
Ruth Bermudez Montenegro		U.S. Magistrate Judge	1992
Stacy Boulware Eurie		Presiding Judge	1992
Susan Jung Townsend	English	Judge	1992
Kathleen Blanchard		Judge	1993
Kenly Kiya Kato	B.A.	Judge	1993
Sheila Olivarez Recio		Judge	1993
Truc Thanh Do		Judge	1993
Patrick Richard McKinney II		Judge	1994
Paul Chapao Chongseng Lo		Judge	1994
Shannon Knight	Sociology	Judge	1994
Teresa Pineda Magno	History	Judge	1994
Brian Matthew Hoffstadt	graduated first in class	Associate Justice	1995
Nathan Ray Scott	summa cum laude	Judge	1995
Peter A. Hernandez		Judge	1995
Frank John Menetrez		Associate Justice	1996
Fred Wallace Slaughter	B.A.	Judge	1996
Shanda Moirene Harry		Judge	1996
Halim Dhanidina		Associate Justice	1997
Kim Le Nguyen		Judge	1997
Lillian Vega Jacobs		Judge	1997
Carolina Vazquez Lugo		Judge	1998
Michelle M. Ahnn		Judge	1998
Natalie Pages Stone		Judge	1998
Pauline Marie Maxwell		Judge	1998
Leonard Enrique Marquez		Judge	1999
Alexander Chester D. Giza		Judge	2000
Michelle C. Kim		Judge	2002
Michelle Erika DeCasas		Judge	2003
A. Verónica Sauceda	Chicana/o Studies, Political Science	Judge	–
Alessandro A. Ricciardulli		Judge	–
Barbara T. Phelan		Judge	–
Bernie Clemente LaForteza		Judge	–
Carol Weinstein Overton		Judge	–
Caswell J. Crebs		Justice	–
Cathryn Franco Brougham		Judge	–
Charlaine F. Olmedo		Judge	–
Charles E. Wilson II		Judge	–
Craig S. Barnes		Judge	–
David Brian Gelfound		Judge	–
David Burgess Walgren		Judge	–
David William Moranda		Judge	–
Deborah Lynne Christian		Judge	–
Deborah S. Brazil	B.A. Communications	Judge	–
Douglas W. Stern		Judge	–
Edlene Christine McKenzie-Clay		Judge	–
Edward Burton Moreton Jr.		Judge	–
Elwood G. H. Lui	Business Administration	Presiding Justice	–
Ernest Mitsuo Hiroshige	Political Science	Judge	–
Ernest Wayne Sawtelle		Judge	–
Fred Wallace Slaughter		Judge	–
Geoffrey A. Goodman		Judge	–
Hector Eduardo Gutierrez		Judge	–
Jacqueline C. Jackson		Judge	–
James D. Cameron		Justice	–
James E. Blancarte		Judge	–
Javier Perez	History	Judge	–
Jeannie M. Joseph	Political Science, Pre-med	Judge	–
Jeffrey S. Cohen-Laurie		Judge	–
Jennifer H. Cops		Judge	–
John Arguelles		Associate Justice	–
John C. Gastelum		Judge	–
Joseph Christopher Smith		Judge	–
Julia L. Alloggiamento		Judge	–
Katherine E. Lewis		Judge	–
Kathryn Ann Solorzano		Judge	–
Keri Greer Katz		Judge	–
Lauren Weis Birnstein	History, cum laude	Judge	–
Loren Gene Freestone	History, Political Science	Judge	–
Maria Andrea Davalos		Judge	–
Maria Lucy Armendariz	Sociology, Economics	Judge	–
Mario Barrera		Judge	–
Mark Alan McCannon		Judge	–
Martin Larry Herscovitz		Judge	–
Mary Lou Villar de Longoria		Judge	–
Megan Louise Wagner	Political Science, cum laude	Judge	–
Melissa R. McCormick		Judge	–
Michael Allen Savage		Judge	–
Michael David Abzug		Judge	–
Michele Marie Castillo	History, Women's Studies	Judge	–
Nancy Louise Newman		Judge	–
Neetu S Badhan-Smith		Judge	–
Peter John Mirich Jr.	summa cum laude	Judge	–
Raquel A. Márquez		Judge	–
Richard Foster Walmark		Judge	–
Robert G. Chu		Judge	–
Robert P. Applegate	1972	Judge	–
Robin Miller Sloan		Judge	–
Roderick Ward Shelton		Judge	–
Rogelio Gonzalez Delgado		Judge	–
Russell Latimer Moore III		Judge	–
Salvador Sarmiento		Judge	–
Sarah D. Grant		Judge	–
Shannon Lee Faherty		Judge	–
Songhai D. Miguda-Armstead		Judge	–
Stephen D. Schuett		Judge	–
Steven K. Slocum		Judge	–
Susan L. Lopez-Giss		Judge	–
Susanne Son-Ok Cho		Judge	–
Thomas Rubinson		Judge	–
Timothy Rex Saito		Judge	–
Tricia Jane Taylor	Sociology	Judge	–
Wendy W. Y. Chang	Dean's List	Judge	–

Source: FJC Biographical Directory. Data last verified 2026-08-15. Verify against the primary source before relying.