ISDLS

JUDICIAL ACTIVITIES: Member, Judicial Conference of the United States; member, Committees on Federal-State Jurisdiction and Criminal law; Ad Hoc Committee on Gender-Based Violence; chair, executive committee, Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference; member, Federal Judicial Center Committee on Summer Educational Programs; Committee of Appellate Judge Education Programs; faculty, “Managing Complex Litigation,” The National Judicial College; faculty, New Judges Orientation, Federal Judicial Center

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Director, Pacific Council on International Policy; director, The California Higher Education Policy Center; director, Constitutional Rights Foundation; member, Task Force on Civil Justice Reform, American Bar Association; member, American Bar Association Judicial Administration Division Coordination Committee on the Agenda for Civil Justice Reform in America; executive committee member, Antitrust & Trade Regulation Section, State Bar of California; member, Committee on Professionalism, Los Angeles County Bar Association; chair, Subcommittee on Peer Review and Counseling, Los Angeles County Bar Association’ Los Angeles Delegation, State Bar Conference of Delegates; Judicial Appointments Committee, Los Angeles County Bar Association; member, Federal Judges Association; member, Association of Business Trial Lawyers

CIVIL ACTIVITIES: Board of Trustees, Vice-chair, Stanford University; Carnegie Commission Task Force of Science and Technology in Judicial and Regulatory Decision-making; advisory committee, Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford University; Stanford Law School Board of Visitors; chair, executive committee, Pepperdine Law School Board of Visitors

BAR MEMBERSHIPS: Los Angeles County Bar Association, American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, United States District Court, United States Court of Appeals

AWARDS: Outstanding Trial Jurist Award (1988-89), Los Angeles County Bar Association

TEACHING: David T. Lewis Distinguished Jurist-in-Residence, the University of Utah College of Law (1992); John M. Olin Lecturer in Law and Economics, University of Virginia School of Law (1994); lectures on case management for new and experienced Federal District Judges, at the Federal Judicial Center, and for State Court and Administrative Law Judges at the National Judicial College.

ISDLS PARTICIPATION: Delegate to Egypt, El Salvador and India.