
Career Highlights: Retired June 16, 2022; Appointed by Gov. Gray Davis to Los Angeles Superior Court, July 2003, retired, May 2022; partner, O'Melveny & Myers, 1983-2001; associate, O'Melveny & Myers, 1975-1983
Law School: Yale Law School
LOS ANGELES -- While teaching U.S. Supreme Court case law to her class of 16-year-old high-school students in Connecticut, Holly E. Kendig wished that she'd gone to law school.
Kendig, now a Los Angeles Superior Court judge, grew up during a time when women had few career choices.
"It was just coming out of the time period when there were three options for women," she said. "You could be a nurse, you could be a secretary, or a teacher."... (continued)