Career Highlights: Appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court judge by Gov. Gavin Newsom, March 18, 2024; commissioner, Los Angeles County Superior Court, 2022-24; judicial law clerk to U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 2020-22; senior trial attorney, trial attorney, U.S. Department of Labor, 2009-20; judicial law clerk to Judge Arthur L. Alarcón, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 2008-09; judicial law clerk to U.S. District Judge Gary A. Feess, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 2007-08; research attorney/law clerk to Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl, Los Angeles County Superior Court, 2006-07
Law School: University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, 2006
ALHAMBRA -- Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Grace Kim still remembers the smell of milk crates and cardboard boxes stacked behind her parents' drive-through dairy in the San Gabriel Valley. While other children spent afternoons at playgrounds or after-school activities, Kim spent much of her childhood stocking shelves, bagging groceries and translating for her Korean immigrant parents as they worked 14-hour days, seven days a week, keeping their small business alive... (continued)