Commissioner Wendy C. Shapero is a commissioner for the Los Angeles County Superior Court, elected by a vote of the court’s judges on March 14, 2025, with assignments that include family law matters. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and her J.D. from Southwestern Law School in 1998, where she was named to the dean’s list, served as an associate editor of the Southwestern University Law Review, and received the American Jurisprudence Award for Constitutional Law I. Prior to her appointment, Shapero spent 26 years (February 1999 to February 2025) as a Deputy City Attorney with the Office of the Los Angeles City Attorney, during which she also served on the Executive Board of the Los Angeles City Attorneys Association and later as its treasurer.
