Judge Robert B. Broadbelt III

Robert Broadbelt was appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in December 2012. After serving in a Family Law assignment for the first four years, he has served in the Civil Division since 2017. He is now assigned to an Unlimited Civil – Individual Calendar courtroom, in Department 513, at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse, in downtown Los Angeles. Judge Broadbelt served on the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 2022 and 2023, and was appointed to serve on the Presiding Judge’s Diversity and Inclusion Working Group in 2021 and 2022. Before being appointed to the bench, Judge Broadbelt spent most of his legal career as a partner in the law firm of Browne Woods George, LLP, where his practice was devoted to complex business litigation with an emphasis on unfair competition, trade secrets, defamation, and First Amendment issues. Judge Broadbelt received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his J.D. from the USC Gould School of Law.