Justice Leondra R. Kruger has served on the California Supreme Court since January 2015.  Before joining the court, Justice Kruger served in the United States Department of Justice as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, Assistant to the Solicitor General, and Acting Deputy Solicitor General.  During her time in the Office of the Solicitor General, she argued twelve cases in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the United States.  Justice Kruger had previously worked in private practice, where she specialized in appellate and Supreme Court litigation, and taught as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School. 

A native of the Los Angeles area, Justice Kruger received an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal.  Following graduation, she clerked for Judge David S. Tatel of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court.

Justice Kruger is currently a member of the American Law Institute, the Appellate Advisory Committee of the Judicial Council of California, and the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States.

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