
Career Highlights: Elevate to presiding justice by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2014; Justice, 2nd District Court of Appeal, Div. 1, Los Angeles, 2005-14; Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, 1978-2005; Los Angeles Municipal Court judge, 1975-78; of counsel, Bodle, Fogel, Julber, Reinhardt & Rothschild, 1972-75; attorney, Office of General Counsel, California State University and Colleges, 1968-72; associate, Bodle, Fogel, Julber, Reinhardt & Rothschild, 1967-68; research attorney, 2nd District Court of Appeal justice Shirley Hufstedler, Div. 5, 1966-67
Law School: UCLA School of Law
By LAUREN BLAU
Daily Journal Staff Writer
As a Jewish child who hid from the Nazis during World War II, Frances Rothschild knows firsthand what it's like to be persecuted as a minority.
Rothschild was born in 1941 in Russian-occupied Zclocow, Poland, during the time of the Nazi invasion. Her parents lived in an apartment with a false wall, masking a door that led to a bunker.
Shortly after the invasion, Rothschild and her parents were taken to a work camp. L... (continued)