Los Angeles County Superior Court (West Covina)
Career Highlights: Nominated as presiding justice of the 2nd District's Division 5 by Gov. Gavin Newsom, October 2024; appointed to the California Court of Appeal by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2014; appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court by Gov. Arnold A. Schwarzenegger, 2010; partner, Jones Day, 2007-2010; assistant U.S. attorney, Los Angeles, 2000-2007; senior counsel, Office of Policy Development, U.S. Department of Justice, 1998-2000; special counsel, Office of General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, 1997-1998; law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, 1996; law clerk to Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall, 1995-1996
Law School: UCLA School of Law, 1995
California Court of Appeal
Career Highlights: Nominated as presiding justice of the 2nd District's Division 5 by Gov. Gavin Newsom, October 2024; appointed to the California Court of Appeal by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2014; appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court by Gov. Arnold A. Schwarzenegger, 2010; partner, Jones Day, 2007-2010; assistant U.S. attorney, Los Angeles, 2000-2007; senior counsel, Office of Policy Development, U.S. Department of Justice, 1998-2000; special counsel, Office of General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, 1997-1998; law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, 1996; law clerk to Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall, 1995-1996
Law School: UCLA School of Law, 1995
California Court of Appeal
By Brandon Ortiz
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WEST COVINA - Brian Hoffstadt's dream of becoming a judge was formed while clerking for Sandra Day O'Connor a year after law school.
The valedictorian of the '95 class at UCLA School of Law, Hoffstadt clerked for the U.S. Supreme Court justice for a year in 1996 and 1997. He and three other clerks prepared bench books for oral arguments and worked with O'Connor to draft opinions.
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