Career Highlights: Joined ADR Services as mediator, March 2023; joined Public Policy Institute of California, January 2023; served as California chief justice, 2011-2022, appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in July 2010; associate justice, 3rd District Court of Appeal, 2005-11; judge, Sacramento County Superior Court, 1997-05; judge, Sacramento County Municipal Court, 1990-97; deputy legal and legislative affairs director for Gov. George Deukmejian, 1988-90; deputy district attorney, Sacramento County, 1984-88.
Law School: UC Davis School of Law, 1984
Appeals, class actions, personal injury, employment, insurance
Former Chief Justice of California Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye hasn't forgotten an acronym she and her colleagues at the Sacramento County District Attorney's office used to describe cases in the 1980s.
"DBW - no case is a dead-bang winner," Cantil-Sakauye said. "You might have the best case in the world, and all your evidence is textbook admissible, but you may still not win. You may still get terrible rulings. You may still have y... (continued)
