
Career Highlights: Appointed U.S. magistrate judge, Central District of California, 2006; special counsel to U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, 2003-06; chief, criminal division, U.S. attorney's office, 2002-03; senior litigation counsel, U.S. attorney's office, 1998-2002; assistant director, Office of Legal Education, U.S. Department of Justice, 1996-97; chief, criminal training/general crimes section, U.S. attorney's office, 1994-96; professional responsibility officer, U.S. attorney's office, 1994-2006; adjunct professor of law, USC Gould School of Law, 1994-2005; litigation associate, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, 1987-89; law clerk, U.S. District Judge Alicemarie H. Stotler, Central District of California, 1986-87
Law School: USC Gould School of Law
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Chooljian said she mirrors the approach of — and owes much of her success as a bench officer to — the late U.S. District Judge Alicemarie Huber Stotler, for whom Chooljian clerked after passing the bar in 1986.
A long list of federal judges, prosecutors and public defenders were mentored by Stotler, including Jean P. Rosenbluth, another U.S. magistrate judge on the Central District of Cal... (continued)