Judge Victoria S. Kaufman serves on the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, San Fernando Valley division, sitting in Courtroom 354/301 at the Woodland Hills courthouse. She was appointed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2006 and previously worked of counsel at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker (2004-06) and Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro (1999-2004, 1996-97), and clerked for Judge Marilyn Shea-Stonum of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio in 1998. Earlier in her career, she was of counsel at Bingham McCutcheon (1994-96) and an associate at Levene & Eisenberg, Los Angeles (1991-94) and Latham & Watkins, San Diego and New York (1989-91).