Career Highlights: Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner, Aug. 13, 2021; supervising attorney, attorney, Children's Law Center of Los Angeles, 2011-21; attorney, Law Offices of Lisa Mandel/Dependency Court Legal Services/CLC, Monterey Park, June 2001-11; Dependency Court Attorney Edelman Children's Court, Monterey Park, October 1999-01; attorney, Goldstein, Kennedy & Petito, Los Angeles, September 1997-99
Law School: Southwestern University School of Law, 1996
Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Gabriela H. Shapiro oversees a team that manages dependency cases that fall under the Indian Child Welfare Act at the Edmund D. Edelman Children's Court.
"I love tradition, spirituality and culture, and that was one of my first draws when the presiding and supervising judges in dependency asked me if I would be interested in being the backup for the ICWA court," she said. "I was det... (continued)
