Central District (Los Angeles)
Career Highlights: Served as a Magistrate Judge on the federal bench, presiding over numerous trials, evidentiary hearings, motions, and discovery conferences involving diverse subject matter. As the settlement judge in hundreds of cases, she helped settle business and insurance disputes; class actions; patent, trademark, and copyright actions; and employment, civil rights, and tort cases. Before her appointment to the bench, Judge Segal served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Division of the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney's Office and practiced business litigation in a private firm.
Law School: Cornell Law School, 1987
Career Highlights: Served as a Magistrate Judge on the federal bench, presiding over numerous trials, evidentiary hearings, motions, and discovery conferences involving diverse subject matter. As the settlement judge in hundreds of cases, she helped settle business and insurance disputes; class actions; patent, trademark, and copyright actions; and employment, civil rights, and tort cases. Before her appointment to the bench, Judge Segal served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Division of the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney's Office and practiced business litigation in a private firm.
Law School: Cornell Law School, 1987
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - A job on Capitol Hill led U.S. Magistrate Judge Suzanne H. Segal to the law.
The summer after she graduated from college, Segal followed a couple of friends to Washington, D.C., where volunteer opportunities were plentiful.
She quickly found a spot with Clarence "Doc" Long, the Democratic U.S. congressman from Maryland whose encouragement of refugees in Pakistan during the Soviet oc... (continued)
