2nd District Court of Appeal (Los Angeles)
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
LOS ANGELES — Justice Brian M. Hoffstadt has an active imagination.
He looks forward to the day he can return to his unpublished fiction novels and uses Gotham City as the setting for judicial students’ final exams.
“It makes it better than Cain murdered Abel on blackacre,” he said.
But under the lights of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, attorneys a... (continued)
