Career Highlights: Appointed to the 9th Circuit by President George W. Bush, 2006; deputy secretary and general counsel, California Resources Agency, 2004-06; partner, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, 1997-2004; associate, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, 1990-97; law clerk, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, 1989-1990; law clerk, 9th U.s. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski, 1988-89
Law School: UCLA Law School, 1988
PASADENA -- Seated among 10 of her colleagues last week, Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta listened intently as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals jurists weighed a commercial free speech appeal she decided a year earlier.
The 11-judge en banc panel had convened, vacating her 2017 ruling in the case that found a San Francisco ordinance requiring beverage advertisers to include a health warning on soda billboards likely violate... (continued)