Judge Angela J. Davis is assigned to the Stanely Mosk Courthouse and recently served by appointment as a Justice Pro Tem on the California Court of Appeal, Second District.
Prior to her service as a judicial officer, Judge Davis was a federal prosecutor specializing in complex fraud and white-collar prosecutions, including tax evasion, securities fraud, and corporate fraud, as well as the writing and arguing of several Ninth Circuit appeals. Prior to her years as a federal prosecutor, Judge Davis served as a litigation associate with major national law firms.
During her years as an attorney, Judge Davis served as President of California Women Lawyers, an elected member of the State Bar Board of Governors, and Chair of the Editorial Board of Los Angeles Lawyer magazine. She has authored several legal and law review articles and her UCLA Law Review comment, published while she was still in law school, has been cited in several subsequent publications. Judge Davis also served as an instructor (and program leader) for judicial reform courses taught, in Spanish, to judges and attorneys in Mexico.
For over ten years, Judge Davis has served as an adjunct law professor, teaching courses at both USC and Southwestern Law School, from which she received the Award for Excellence in Teaching, an honor nominated and selected by the student body.
In addition to authoring several published legal articles, Judge Davis is a produced and award-winning playwright. In recent years, her work has been performed in London, New York, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.
Judge Davis graduated from Stanford University with a degree in comparative literature and from UCLA Law School, where she was a law review editor
