
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Yolo County Superior Court by Gov. Gavin Newsom, May 2023; Commissioner, Yolo County Superior Court commissioner, 2020-2023; judge pro tem, Yolo County Superior Court, 2016-22; supervising research attorney, Yolo County Superior Court, 2019-20; family law court services manager/family law facilitator, Yolo County Superior Court, 2015-19; family law facilitator/self-help attorney, Yolo County Superior Court, 2011-15; legal research attorney, Yolo County Superior Court, 2007-11; sole practitioner, 1997-2007; associate, Law Office of Robert P. Kahn, 1993-96; associate, Lossing & Elston, 1990-93.
Law School: University of Idaho School of Law
WOODLAND -- Working with unrepresented litigants is Yolo County Superior Court Commissioner Catherine R. Hohenwarter's specialty -- first over nearly a decade as a court self-help attorney and now on the bench.
"Most of the people who appear before me are self-represented," Hohenwarter said. "Having all those years of listening to them at the counter, listening to what their confusion is, actually learning that some of them, the... (continued)