Los Angeles County Superior Court (Van Nuys)
Career Highlights: Appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner, April 2005; assigned referee by (now retired) Judge Terry B. Friedman, Los Padrinos Juvenile Court, 2002-05; staff attorney, Dependency Court Legal Services, Los Angeles, 1992-2000; staff attorney, Auxiliary Legal Services, Los Angeles, 1991-92; adjunct professor of criminal evidence, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, 1989-91; staff attorney, Attorney General of Arkansas, Little Rock, 1988-91; deputy public defender, Pulaski County Public Defender's Office, Little Rock, 1986-88; associate, Law Offices of John Wesley Hall, Little Rock, 1985-86
Law School: Indiana University Maurer School of Law (formerly Indiana University School of Law,) Bloomington, 1985
Career Highlights: Appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner, April 2005; assigned referee by (now retired) Judge Terry B. Friedman, Los Padrinos Juvenile Court, 2002-05; staff attorney, Dependency Court Legal Services, Los Angeles, 1992-2000; staff attorney, Auxiliary Legal Services, Los Angeles, 1991-92; adjunct professor of criminal evidence, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, 1989-91; staff attorney, Attorney General of Arkansas, Little Rock, 1988-91; deputy public defender, Pulaski County Public Defender's Office, Little Rock, 1986-88; associate, Law Offices of John Wesley Hall, Little Rock, 1985-86
Law School: Indiana University Maurer School of Law (formerly Indiana University School of Law,) Bloomington, 1985
By Sean Windle
Daily Journal Staff Writer
VAN NUYS - Coming to Los Angeles was the best decision Superior Court Commissioner Steff Padilla says she ever made.
It was 1991 and Padilla, then 30, decided to pack up YipYap, her Yorkie-Toy Poodle mix and leave Arkansas for the West Coast.
"When you don't grow up in a community that is diverse and that is what you want, it's hard," Padilla said. "I knew career-wise that I had gon... (continued)
