Associate Justice Carlos R. Moreno
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
Date of Birth: Nov. 4, 1948 in Los Angeles
Family: Married to wife Christine; two children, Keiko and
Nicholas
Education: J.D., Stanford Law School, 1975; B.A. (Political
Science), Yale University, 1970
Justice Carlos R. Moreno was sworn in as an associate justice of
the Supreme Court of California on October 18, 2001, following his
nomination by Governor Gray Davis.
Justice Moreno began his career as a deputy city attorney with
the Los Angeles City Attorney's office, prosecuting criminal and
civil consumer protection cases and handling politically sensitive
and legislative matters as special counsel to the city attorney. He
then joined the firm of Mori & Ota (now known as Kelley, Drye
& Warren) in 1979, representing institutional clients in the
firm's general commercial litigation practice.
In the fall of 1986, Governor George Deukmejian appointed Justice
Moreno to the Municipal Court, Compton Judicial District, where
Moreno handled general criminal matters and supervised the court's
civil department. In October 1993, Governor Pete Wilson elevated
Justice Moreno to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, where he
presided over felony trials in downtown Los Angeles.
Justice Moreno was then nominated to the federal bench by
President Bill Clinton and in February 1998, he was unanimously
confirmed to the United States District Court for the Central
District of California by the United States Senate. Moreno served as
a federal district court judge for over three years, presiding over
a broad range of complex civil and criminal matters.
Justice Moreno has served as President of the Mexican American
Bar Association and has been a member of the California Judges
Association, the Presiding Judges Association, and the Municipal
Court Judges Association of Los Angeles County. He has served on the
Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School and the Board of Governors
of the Association of Yale Alumni. He is a Director of the Arroyo
Vista Family Health Center and a former President of the Yale Club
of Southern California. In 1997, Moreno received the Criminal
Justice Superior Court Judge of the Year Award from the Los Angeles
County Bar Association, and in 2003 the Roger J. Traynor Appellate
Justice of the Year Award from the Consumer Attorneys Association of
Los Angeles. Justice Moreno is the Chair of the California Blue
Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care.
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