San Diego County (San Diego)
Career Highlights: Nominated to serve as an Associate Justice of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division One, by Gov. Gavin Newsom, February 2023, and confirmed April 2023; Judge, San Diego County Superior, 2003-2023; Partner and Associate, Wiggins & Kelety LLP, 1997-2003; Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of California, 1990-1997; associate, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, 1986-1990; law clerk for the Honorable Mary M. Schroeder at the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1985-1986.
Law School: Cornell Law School
Career Highlights: Nominated to serve as an Associate Justice of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division One, by Gov. Gavin Newsom, February 2023, and confirmed April 2023; Judge, San Diego County Superior, 2003-2023; Partner and Associate, Wiggins & Kelety LLP, 1997-2003; Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of California, 1990-1997; associate, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, 1986-1990; law clerk for the Honorable Mary M. Schroeder at the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1985-1986.
Law School: Cornell Law School
By Dean Calbreath
Special to the Daily Journal
Special to the Daily Journal
Charles Dickens' "Bleak House" offers literature's best-known description of probate court: a musty place where cases languish for decades as inheritances are eaten away by legal bills.
But Superior Court Judge Julia Kelety, who has been presiding over San Diego County probate cases for the past eight years, says her job is more like Shakespeare than Dicke... (continued)
