
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Orange County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Dec. 27, 2012; assistant U.S. attorney, Central District of California, Santa Ana, 2002-12; assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of California, San Diego, 2001-2; associate, Latham & Watkins, San Diego, 1999-2001
Law School: Tulane University School of Law
By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WESTMINSTER - The Aryan Brotherhood changed Terri Flynn's life.
These days, she is Orange County Superior Court Judge Terri K. Flynn-Peister. In early 2006, she was a five-year assistant U.S. attorney thrown into what was then the largest federal death penalty case in history with only three months to go before trial.
For the next two years, "I don't think I had a life. I don't th... (continued)