Helen Zukin is the Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Four, having joined the court in July 2023 and assumed the Presiding Justice role in 2025 after previously serving as an Associate Justice of the same division. Before her appointment to the Court of Appeal, she served five years as a Los Angeles Superior Court judge following her appointment by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in 2018, where she presided over family law and civil matters and championed initiatives in judicial mentorship and diversity and inclusion. A Los Angeles native and graduate of Loyola Law School, Justice Zukin built her legal career in plaintiffs’ complex civil litigation and remains deeply engaged in the legal community through her leadership on numerous judicial selection, mentorship, and bar association committees.
