Los Angeles County (Los Angeles)
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Gavin Newsom, March 2025; commissioner, Los Angeles County Superior Court, 2018-2023; deputy public defender, Los Angeles County, 2002-2018, paralegal, Office of the Public Defender, Los Angeles County, 1999-2002; legal office support, Office of the Public Defender, Los Angeles County, 1992-1999
Law School: University of West Los Angeles School of Law, 1997
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Gavin Newsom, March 2025; commissioner, Los Angeles County Superior Court, 2018-2023; deputy public defender, Los Angeles County, 2002-2018, paralegal, Office of the Public Defender, Los Angeles County, 1999-2002; legal office support, Office of the Public Defender, Los Angeles County, 1992-1999
Law School: University of West Los Angeles School of Law, 1997
LOS ANGELES — For Commissioner Kimberly Dotson, becoming a lawyer was not a childhood aspiration and neither was an election to the bench. Rather, both moves were the product of a career in public service that now spans nearly three decades, reaching back to her undergraduate days at UC Riverside.
In those days, she studied business economics with the goal of going into finance or teaching economics.
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