USD Law Alumna Sharon L. Kalemkiarian '89 (JD) Named Superior Court Judge

San Diego (December 12, 2014) – California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. appointed University of San Diego (USD) School of Law alumna Sharon L. Kalemkiarian, '89 (JD), to a judgeship in San Diego County Superior.

Since 2000, Kalemkiarian has been a partner at Ashworth, Blanchet, Christenson and Kalemkiarian, a firm that she helped found. She practices in the area of family law and has experience ranging from litigation to complicated settlement proceedings to mediation. Kalemkiarian was an adjunct professor at USD School of Law from 2010 to 2014, where she taught a course on family law. She also has expertise in the areas of guardianship and juvenile law.

Kalemkiarian had previously served as a director of San Diego Project Heartbeat from 1996 to 2000, a supervising attorney at the USD Child Advocacy Clinic from 1993 to 1996 and a Skadden fellow at the Legal Aid Society of San Diego from 1991 to 1993. Kalemkiarian also served as a law clerk for Judge Gordon Thompson Jr., U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, from 1989 to 1991. She is a member of the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board.

Kalemkiarian fills the vacancy created by the conversion of a court commissioner position on February 7, 2014. She is a Democrat.

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About the University of San Diego School of Law

Celebrating 60 years of alumni success, 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 900 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 81 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 23rd worldwide in all-time 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, nonprofit, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.