Martha A. Matthews

Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Nov. 2, 2017; directing attorney, Children's Rights Project, Los Angeles, 2011-17; writ attorney/supervising attorney, Children's Law Center, Monterey Park, 2005-11; director, USC Law School of Domestic Violence Clinic and assistant clinical law professor, Los Angeles, 2004-05; attorney, ACLU of Southern California, Los Angeles, 2000-04; staff attorney, National Center for Youth Law, Oakland, 1998-00, 1991-95; director of Family Advocacy Program, Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, 1996-98; staff attorney, Legal Services for Children, San Francisco, 1990-91; law clerk, Justice Harry Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court, 1989-90; law clerk, Judge (now Justice) Stephen Breyer, First Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, 1988-89; law clerk, Judge (now Senior Judge) Thelton Henderson, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1987-88.

UC Berkeley School of Law, 1987