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Sep. 16, 2009

Elections and Appointments

Robert Vanderet is a self-described '60s liberal' who campaigned for Robert Kennedy and Barack Obama. Now he presides over a criminal courtroom in Los Angeles, where he finds sentencing a particularly challenging part of the job.

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Elections and Appointments

Robert C. Vanderet

Los Angeles County Superior Court

Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2008; partner, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, 1980-2005; associate, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, 1973-80

Law School: Stanford Law School
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By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - The political bug struck Bob Vanderet at an early age.

Vanderet was in junior high school when he joined the Young Democrats - just in time to see John F. Kennedy elected president.

He took a semester off during his junior year at UCLA to work on Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign. Within months, Kennedy was dead.

"That whole summer was almost like a bad dream... (continued)

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