No political experience information on file.

Chair, Task Force on Jury Instructions, Judicial Council of California, 1997-2005

Member, Commission on Future of California’s Courts, Judicial Council of California, 1991-1994

Associate Justice, California State Supreme Court, 2006-present

Faculty, California Judicial College, 1988-present

Associate Justice, Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Three, 1994-2006

Judge, Alameda County Superior Court, 1991-1994

Adjunct Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, 1984-1987, 1990-1994

Judge, Oakland, Emeryville Piedmont Judicial District, 1987-1991

Adjunct Professor of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law, 1988-1990

Adjunct Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of Law, 1981-1987, 1989

Senior Deputy District Attorney, Alameda County, 1985-1987

Deputy District Attorney, Alameda County, 1975-1985

Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Puget Sound School of Law, 1981

Chair, Saint Vincent's Day Home, 1991-present

Member, Board of Directors, Holy Names College, 1988-present

Member, Board of Directors, Saint Vincent’s Day Home, 1982-present

Member, National Institute of Trial Advocacy, 1981-present

Chair, Board of Directors, Holy Names College, 1990-2005

Member, California Judicial Council, 1997-2001

Member, Governing Board, Center for Judicial Education & Research, 1994-1997

Member, Goodwill Industries of the Greater East Bay, 1985-1989

Member, President’s Commission on Organized Crime, 1983-1986

Special Consultant, President’s Task Force on Victims of Violent Crime, 1982

Note and Comment Editor, Law Journal, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, 1975

President, Student Body, Holy Names College, 1970

Awards:

Founder's Medal, Holy Names College, 1970
Jurist of the Year, California Judicial Council, 2003
Distinguished Faculty Award, National Institute of Trial Advocacy, 1997
Magna cum laude, Holy Names College, 1970