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# Gail Killefer

Gail Killefer is the ADR Program Director for the U.S. District Court, Central District of California. Before joining the Court in August 2010, she had a private law and mediation practice in San Francisco. She served as an Assistant United States Attorney in San Francisco from 1989 to 2001. Before 1989, she served as a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Torts Branch, in Washington, D.C., and as a law clerk to the Honorable Barrington D. Parker. She received a B.A. from Stanford University and a J.D. from Vermont Law School.

### Articles written by this author:

[![Implicit bias in decision-making and mediation](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/media/zoo/images/Killefer-thinkstock-477571265_6aa42328c0adf82054b46f5a6c2cc4ce.jpg)](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2015-september/implicit-bias-in-decision-making-and-mediation-2 "Implicit bias in decision-making and mediation")

## [Implicit bias in decision-making and mediation](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2015-september/implicit-bias-in-decision-making-and-mediation-2 "Implicit bias in decision-making and mediation")

Unconscious cultural bias – “social cognition” – and how it can affect decision-making

[Gail Killefer](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/gail-killefer "Gail Killefer")

[2015 September](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2015-september)