Carolyn Kuhl
Carolyn Barbara Kuhl (born July 24, 1952) is a judge on the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles and a former nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She became a Superior Court judge in 1995 and was nominated to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on June 22, 2001, by President George W. Bush.
Background
Kuhl was born on July 24, 1952, in
In 1974, Judge Kuhl received a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Princeton University with honors. Judge Kuhl was in the second class of women ever to graduate from Princeton. She graduated with honors from Duke Law School in 1977 where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and an editor of the Duke Law Journal.
From 1977 to 1978, Kuhl clerked for future
From 1981 to 1986, she served in the
From 1986 to 1995, Judge Kuhl was a partner in the
In 1995, she became a judge on the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles.[2]
Ninth Circuit nomination under Bush
On June 22, 2001, Judge Kuhl was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated by the Judge
In the 2002 midterm congressional elections, the
Kuhl's nomination was filibustered on November 14, 2003, when the Senate failed to end debate with a 53–43 cloture vote, which fell 7 votes shy of the 60 needed to overcome the filibuster. In December 2004, Judge Kuhl withdrew her nomination.[4] In 2006, new Bush nominee Sandra Segal Ikuta was confirmed to the seat to which Kuhl had originally been nominated.
Current life
On May 26, 2006, Chief Justice
In October 2012, Kuhl was elected to the post of assistant presiding judge of the court for 2013 and 2014, defeating Judge Dan T. Oki. By court tradition, she served her two-year term as assistant presiding judge and then ran unopposed for the post of presiding judge for 2015 and 2016.[5][6]
Law reform work
Kuhl was elected to the American Law Institute in October 1988 and was elected to the ALI Council in May 2012. She served as an Adviser on the Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation project, and continues to serve as an Adviser on Principles of Government Ethics[7] and the Restatement Third, the Law of Consumer Contracts.[8]
Personal
Kuhl lives with her two daughters and her husband, William "Bill" Highberger, who is also a judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court.[9]
See also
References
- ^ "President George W. Bush Today Announced His Intention to Nominate Three". Retrieved 2019-05-18.[dead link] Alt URL
- ^ http://www.cwfa.org/images/content/kuhlbackgrounder.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Lewis, Neil A. (9 May 2003). "Judge Wins Committee Vote, But Confirmation Is Uncertain". The New York Times.
- ^ "Scholar@Simmons - Simmons University". www.simmons.edu.
- ^ Carolyn Kuhl Elected Assistant Presiding Judge Kenneth Ofgang, Metropolitan News-Enterprise, October 4, 2012
- ^ UCLA School of Law faculty profile
- ^ Principles of Government Ethics - Project Participants Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Restatement Third, The Law of Consumer Contracts - Project Participants Archived 2014-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Hon. William Foster Highberger - a Los Angeles, California (CA) Lawyer". Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2008-10-19.