USD Alumna Emily A. Benjamini '92 (JD) Appointed to Judgeship

Emily A. Benjamini ’92 (JD) Appointed to Judgeship

SAN DIEGO (October 22, 2018) – Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. recently announced the appointment of 33 California superior court judges, including University of San Diego (USD) School of Law alumna Emily A. Benjamini, ’92 (JD).

Benjamini’s judgeship is in the Riverside County Superior Court. Benjamini has been a sole practitioner since 2014. She was an attorney at Benjamini and Benjamini from 2005 to 2014 and at the Law Offices of Jenny L. Doling in 2005. She served as a deputy public defender at the Law Offices of the Riverside County Public Defender from 1996 to 2004 and was an associate at Slovak and Baron from 1994 to 1996, and at Lincoln, Gustafson and was an associate from 1992 to 1994. She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Helios J. Hernandez. She is a Democrat.  Benjamini is a graduate of USD School of Law and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a Bachelor of Arts. Benjamini is a Democrat.

About the University of San Diego School of Law

The University of San Diego (USD) School of Law is recognized for the excellence of its faculty, depth of its curriculum, and strength of its clinical programs. Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world. The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates. The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 35th nationally and 6th on the West Coast among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 20th nationally and 4th on the West Coast in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.