Career Highlights: Appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court judge by Gov. Gavin Newsom, May 19, 2023; deputy district attorney, Los Angeles County, 2007-23; associate, Lightfoot Vandevelde Sadowsky Medvene & Levine, 2002-07; law clerk, Judge Patrick J. Walsh, Los Angeles, 2001-02
Law School: USC Gould School of Law, 2001
LANCASTER - Superior Court Judge Ryan Williams knows how to adapt -- a skill he developed as a child, moving from city to city whenever his father, a turnaround specialist for Avon Tupperware, was sent to rescue struggling branches.
"Some places we lived three years, some places we lived 10 months," Williams, a Massachusetts native, recalled. "You just never knew when dad was going to come home and say, 'Hey, we need to have a family meeting,' a... (continued)