Four Alumni Named to Superior Court Posts

Four Berkeley Law graduates were recently appointed to California Superior Court judgeships. Andrea Flint, appointed in Santa Clara County, has been a deputy public defender for that county since 1997. Leland Davis, appointed in San Mateo County, has been a sole practitioner since 2003 and previously was a deputy public defender in San Francisco and a trial attorney for Hunter and Anderson. Russell Kussman and Robert Willett were appointed in Los Angeles County. Kussman has been a founding partner of Kussman and Whitehill since 1988, while Willett has served as an associate, partner, vice chair, and vice chair emeritus for O’Melveny and Myers since 1974.