Judge Curtis A. Kin

Honorable Curtis A. Kin was appointed to the California Superior Court, Los Angeles County in 2013 and sits in the Writs and Receivers Department. He is active in judicial education and serves as Associate Dean for California’s Judicial College. For over 20 years, he has been an adjunct professor teaching trial advocacy, criminal investigations, and criminal procedure. He worked at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, and was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. He also served as a law clerk to Hon. Sonia Sotomayor (Second Circuit) and Hon. Jed S. Rakoff (S.D.N.Y). Judge Kin graduated, with distinction, from Stanford Law School, was Managing Board Senior Editor for the Stanford Law Review, and holds a B.A. in International Relations, magna cum laude, from USC.