Los Angeles County (Compton)
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2010; deputy attorney general, California Department of Justice, 2000-10; sole practitioner, 1992-2000; associate, Albright & Singleton, 1992; law clerk, Los Angeles city attorney's office, 1989-92; paralegal, Judge Advocate General, U.S. Air Force Reserves, 1985-91 Law School: Whittier School of Law, 1991
Law School: Whittier Law School
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2010; deputy attorney general, California Department of Justice, 2000-10; sole practitioner, 1992-2000; associate, Albright & Singleton, 1992; law clerk, Los Angeles city attorney's office, 1989-92; paralegal, Judge Advocate General, U.S. Air Force Reserves, 1985-91 Law School: Whittier School of Law, 1991
Law School: Whittier Law School
In 2015, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Karen Ackerson Gauff had just returned from bereavement leave to her assignment at the Compton Courthouse when she received a call.
One of Gauff’s supervisors wanted to know if she would like to preside over a new kind of court. Like the drug court Gauff had been managing since 2010, this new court was to be nonadversarial — attorneys would work in collaboration with one another ... (continued)
