Los Angeles County
Career Highlights: Appointed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals by Pres. Joseph Biden, confirmed January 2022; appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Nov. 29, 2018; deputy director, executive programs, California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Los Angeles, 2016-18; special counsel, solicitor general, New York attorney general's office, 2015-16; senior attorney, appellate section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington D.C., 2010-15; assistant counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. , New York, 2005-10 She joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. as a Liman fellow in 2005, then stayed on as assistant counsel there until 2010. Thomas worked five years as a senior appellate attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice and one year as special counsel to the solicitor general at the New York state attorney general's office.
Law School: Yale Law School
Career Highlights: Appointed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals by Pres. Joseph Biden, confirmed January 2022; appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Nov. 29, 2018; deputy director, executive programs, California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Los Angeles, 2016-18; special counsel, solicitor general, New York attorney general's office, 2015-16; senior attorney, appellate section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington D.C., 2010-15; assistant counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. , New York, 2005-10 She joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. as a Liman fellow in 2005, then stayed on as assistant counsel there until 2010. Thomas worked five years as a senior appellate attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice and one year as special counsel to the solicitor general at the New York state attorney general's office.
Law School: Yale Law School
LOS ANGELES -- Judge Holly A. Thomas is new to family law, but it didn't take long for her to learn a divorce proceeding could be one of the most traumatic events of peoples' lives.
A former civil rights attorney, Thomas said the rigors of her day-to-day work in the New York state appellate court helped her become a quick study.
"So I might be doing a house case one day, a voting case th... (continued)
