San Luis Obispo County (San Luis Obispo)
Career Highlights: Nominated to the Second District Court of Appeal, Division Six, by Gov. Gavin Newsom, June 2022, confirmed August 3, 2022. Appointed to the San Luis Obispo County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Nov. 2, 2017; founding partner, Baltodano & Baltodano LLP, San Luis Obispo, 2011-17; senior associate, Sanchez & Amador LLP, Los Angeles, 2010-11; senior associate, Anderson McPharlin & Conners LLP, Los Angeles, 2010; associate, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP, (now Robins Kaplan LLP) Los Angeles, 2006-09; associate, Holguin & Garfield APLC, 2005-06; associate, Law Office of David A. Mallen, 2004-05; associate, Hadsell & Stormer, Inc. (now Hadsell Stormer & Renick LLP) , Pasadena, 2003-04
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law, 2002
Career Highlights: Nominated to the Second District Court of Appeal, Division Six, by Gov. Gavin Newsom, June 2022, confirmed August 3, 2022. Appointed to the San Luis Obispo County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Nov. 2, 2017; founding partner, Baltodano & Baltodano LLP, San Luis Obispo, 2011-17; senior associate, Sanchez & Amador LLP, Los Angeles, 2010-11; senior associate, Anderson McPharlin & Conners LLP, Los Angeles, 2010; associate, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP, (now Robins Kaplan LLP) Los Angeles, 2006-09; associate, Holguin & Garfield APLC, 2005-06; associate, Law Office of David A. Mallen, 2004-05; associate, Hadsell & Stormer, Inc. (now Hadsell Stormer & Renick LLP) , Pasadena, 2003-04
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law, 2002
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Judge Hernaldo Baltodano hangs a few keepsakes in his chambers for motivation. One is a rejection letter from Harvard Law School and the other is a letter his father wrote to President Jimmy Carter seeking asylum.
It was the late 1970s, and the Baltodanos were tourists in the U.S. but didn’t want to return to a civil war in Nicaragua.
“[My dad] thought that this countr... (continued)
