Governor Appoints Santa Monica Judge To LA County Superior Court

SANTA MONICA, CA – Governor Brown announced the appointment of 25 California superior court judges, including Judge Audra M. Mori from Santa Monica, according to a press release from Governor Brown's office. The other two dozen judges include: six others in Los Angeles County; three in Alameda County; one in Contra Costa County; one in El Dorado County; one in Humboldt County; three in Orange County; one in Plumas County; two in Riverside County; three in San Diego County; one in Santa Cruz County; one in Shasta County; and one in Sonoma County.

Mori, 50, has been appointed to serve in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. She's been managing partner of the Los Angeles Office of Perkins Coie LLP since 2017, where she has been a partner since 2005. She was a partner at Piper Rudnick LLP from 2002 to 2004, and before that she was a partner at Preston, Gates and Ellis LLP in 2002, where she was an associate from 1998 to 2001, the press release said.

She was an associate at Andrews Kurth LLP from 1996 to 1998 and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard W. Goldberg at the U.S. Court of International Trade from 1994 to 1996. She was an associate at Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison from 1992 to 1994, according to the press release. Mori earned a Juris Doctor degree from Cornell Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She fills the vacancy created by the conversion of a court commissioner position on June 26, 2017. Mori is registered without party preference, the press release said.

Photo of Audra Mori courtesy of Governor Jerry Brown's Office