
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Orange County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2010; associate general counsel, Western Dental Services Inc., Orange, 2008-10; attorney, Samuels, Green & Steel LLP, Irvine, 2007-08; attorney, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Irvine 1996-2007
Law School: Harvard Law School
By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WESTMINSTER - One day early last year, when Beatriz M. Gordon still was a brand new judge on the Orange County Superior Court, her supervising judge told her she'd need to fill in for him on the master calendar temporarily.
As a lawyer, Gordon only handled civil litigation. At that point as a judge, she had only handled traffic-ticket cases. For the master calendar at the Westminster branch courthouse... (continued)