RivCo Woman Appointed Judge To Riverside County Superior Court

From the Office of the Governor: Dorothy McLaughlin, 45, of Riverside, has been appointed to a judgeship in the Riverside County Superior Court. McLaughlin has been of counsel at Best, Best and Krieger since 2015. She served as a career law clerk to the Honorable Sheri Pym, U.S. Magistrate Judge at the U.S. District Court, Central District of California from 2012 to 2015. McLaughlin was deputy chief of the Riverside Branch Office for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California from 2011 to 2012, where she served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney from 2007 to 2012.

She was an associate at Keker and Van Nest LLP from 2006 to 2007 and at Cooley Godward LLP from 2004 to 2005. McLaughlin served as a law clerk for the Honorable Ronald L. Gilman at the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit from 2003 to 2004 and for the Honorable Dana Fabe at the Alaska Supreme Court from 2002 to 2003. She earned a Juris Doctor degree from the Northwestern University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University. She fills the vacancy of a new position created on September 18, 2017. McLaughlin is a Democrat.

Photo courtesy of the Office of the Governor