Career Highlights: Elected commissioner by Los Angeles County Superior Court judges, 1989; sole practitioner, 1980-89; public defender's office, Los Angeles County, 1974-80
Law School: Hastings College of the Law, 1973
Attorneys marvel at the harmony Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Gary Bounds was able to orchestrate when he presided over dependency court, in what was usually a stressful setting.
Bounds, 57, says his secret to creating harmony at work is immersing himself in music when he's at home.
Music and law, he said, have their own structure and their own rules. It's in their differences that he finds harmony and balance, he said. Music draws o... (continued)
