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title: Suzanne H. Segal
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# Suzanne H. Segal

Judge Suzanne H. Segal was appointed a United States Magistrate Judge for the Central District of California on July 31, 2002. In 2012, the Court appointed Judge Segal as the Chief Magistrate Judge for the Central District and she will serve in this position until her current term expires on July 30, 2018. In her role as Chief, Judge Segal provides leadership to the District’s 25 Magistrate Judges, and represents the Magistrate Judges both as an ex officio member of all Central District court committees and as the Central District’s representative to the Executive Board of Magistrate Judges for the Ninth Circuit. Before taking the bench, Judge Segal served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Division of the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney’s Office, from 1990 to 2002. Prior to serving in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Judge Segal was an associate at Dewey, Ballantine in Los Angeles.

### Articles written by this author:

[![Social-media discovery during the social-media boom](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/media/zoo/images/Segal-thinkstock-181178018_84b51a19f116a3875f0954b5f4d97e56.jpg)](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2014-july/social-media-discovery-during-the-social-media-boom "Social-media discovery during the social-media boom")

## [Social-media discovery during the social-media boom](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2014-july/social-media-discovery-during-the-social-media-boom "Social-media discovery during the social-media boom")

The challenge of finding relevant information

[Suzanne H. Segal](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/suzanne-h-segal "Suzanne H. Segal")

[2014 July](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2014-july)

## [Proportionality and necessity under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2017-july/proportionality-and-necessity-under-federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-26-b "Proportionality and necessity under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)")

Is your discovery worth it?

[Suzanne H. Segal](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/suzanne-h-segal "Suzanne H. Segal")

[2017 July](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2017-july)