Honorable Pamela Ann Rymer

Advisory Committee, Chair

Judge Rymer received her legal degree from Stanford University. She was a partner at Lillick McHose & Charles (1966-75) and at Toy and Rymer (1975-83). From 1983-89, she served as United States District Judge, Central District of California, and is currently United States Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She has served on the Commission of Structural Alternatives for the Federal Court of Appeals, the Federal Judicial Center's Committee on Appellate Judge Education, the Judicial Conference of the United States Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction, and the Committee on Criminal Law.  She is a trustee of Stanford University and serves on the Pepperdine Law School Board of Visitors. She was a member of the Carnegie Commission Task Force on Science and Technology in Judicial and Regulatory Decisionmaking, the Board of Directors of the California Higher Education Policy Center, the Commission on Substance Abuse on College and University Campuses, and chaired the California Postsecondary Education Commission. She served on the Task Force on Civil Justice Reform of the American Bar Association and the Editorial Board of The Judges' Journal, and is currently a member of the Committee on Professionalism of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Judge Rymer received the Outstanding Trial Jurist Award from the Los Angeles County Bar Association in 1988.