
Career Highlights: Nominated by President George W. Bush to U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, confirmed by U.S. Senate, 2003; judge, San Diego County Superior Court, 1998-2003; judge, North County Municipal Court, Vista, 1995-98; partner, Baker McKenzie, 1992-95; associate, Baker McKenzie, 1989-92; associate, Price, Postel & Parma LLC, 1985-88
Law School: McGeorge School of Law, 1985
Southern District Court of California
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN DIEGO - U.S. District Judge Dana Makoto Sabraw lists the samurai as an inspiration for his judicial temperament during his 14 years on the bench - the last five of them as a federal judge in San Diego.
Not the swashbuckling samurai of movie lore or the volatile, hot-tempered Japanese warrior/stockbroker/psychiatrist John Belushi played on "Saturday Night Live," but the men of the shogunate who ran a... (continued)