Judge in Residence lecture to highlight importance of advocacy
Leondra R. Kruger, associate justice of the California Supreme Court and a former Obama administration official, will engage in a town hall conversation with the University of Cincinnati moderated by College of Law Dean Verna Williams.
The discussion will cover effective advocacy, Justice Kruger’s path to the bench and her most notable opinions, which span criminal law, local law, employment law, statutory interpretation, California constitutional law and the First Amendment. The 2021 Judge in Residence lecture is 12:15 p.m., Thursday, March 25 via WebEx.
About the lecturer
The Honorable Leondra R. Kruger was appointed to the Supreme Court of California, confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments and sworn in by former Gov. Jerry Brown in 2015.
Immediately before joining the court, Justice Kruger served in the U.S. Department of Justice as a deputy assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel.
From 2007 to 2013, she served in the department as an assistant to the solicitor general and as acting deputy solicitor general. During her tenure in the Office of the Solicitor General, she argued 12 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the federal government. In 2013 and in 2014, she received the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service, the department’s highest award for employee performance.
Justice Kruger had previously been in private practice, where she specialized in appellate and Supreme Court litigation and taught as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
A native of the Los Angeles area, Justice Kruger attended high school in Pasadena. She received her bachelor’s degree with high honors from Harvard College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her juris doctor degree from Yale Law School, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. Upon graduation, she served as a clerk to Judge David S. Tatel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and to Associate Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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