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Judge James Herman
Appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in May 2005, Judge Herman presides over a juvenile dependency and delinquency calendar. He currently serves on the Judicial Council’s Advisory Committee on Technical Assistance to the Courts, the California Judges Association’s Legislative and ADR Committees, the State Bar of California’s Diversity Pipeline Committee and the California Commission on Access to Justice. He has previously served on the Judicial Council’s Civil and Small Claims Advisory Committee. He is a seminar leader for New Judges Orientation. He is President of the Rodney Melville Inns of Court.
After graduating from UC Santa Barbara (B.A.), California Western Law School (J.D.) and New York University School of Law (LL.M) (Robert Marshall Fellow, Jacob Fuchsburg Fellow), Judge Herman practiced for seven years as a deputy public defender and for over twenty years as a commercial litigator with offices in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.
While in practice, Judge Herman served on the Judicial Council, as President of the State Bar of California, the Santa Barbara County Bar Association, and the Central Coast Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, as Chair of the Judicial Nominee’s Evaluation Commission Review Panel, as a member of the University of California’s sub committee on Legal Education and as a board member of Santa Barbara Women Lawyers.
Judge Herman’s honors include the Judicial Council’s Bernard E. Witkin Distinguished Service Amicus Curiae Award, the California Bench Bar Coalition’s Special Merit Award, the State Bar of California’s Diversity in the Profession Award, the Santa Barbara County Bar Association’s Richard Abbe Humanitarian Award and Pro Bono Services Award and an Honorary
Doctor of Laws from California Western Law School. |
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