Los Angeles Superior Court
Career Highlights: Retired November 15, 2023, Elevated by Gov. Gray Davis, to presiding justice, 2nd District court of Appeal, Division Seven, 2003; justice, 2nd District court of Appeal, 2001-21; judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court, 1999-2001; partner, Hufstedler & Kaus and Morrison & Foerster, 1975-99; clerk, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, 1974-75; clerk, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal judge Shirley M. Hufstedler, 1973-74.
Law School: Harvard Law School
Career Highlights: Retired November 15, 2023, Elevated by Gov. Gray Davis, to presiding justice, 2nd District court of Appeal, Division Seven, 2003; justice, 2nd District court of Appeal, 2001-21; judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court, 1999-2001; partner, Hufstedler & Kaus and Morrison & Foerster, 1975-99; clerk, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, 1974-75; clerk, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal judge Shirley M. Hufstedler, 1973-74.
Law School: Harvard Law School
These days, Judge Dennis Perluss hears traffic cases in an ugly concrete courthouse surrounded by blighted trash-strewn blocks south of downtown Los Angeles. The California Supreme Court it is not.
Perluss could be getting a change of scenery soon, though. He is one of four candidates being considered to replace the late Justice Stanley Mosk on the state's high court, which sits in a grand old Beaux Arts building in San Francisco.
The others are 5th... (continued)
