J. Anthony Kline

Justice J. Anthony Kline is a presiding justice who graduated from Johns Hopkins University with honors and later attended graduate school at Cornell University and Yale Law School. After law school, he served as a law clerk to a California Supreme Court Justice and then worked as an attorney in New York. He then returned to California and worked as a Legal Services Lawyer and was one of the founders of Public Advocates, Inc., the first non-profit public interest law firm in the west. In 1975, he was appointed Legal Affairs Secretary to Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. and in 1980 he was appointed to the San Francisco Superior Court. In 1982, he was appointed Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Conservation Corps and a member of the Board of Directors of the Golden Gate Kindergarten Association and the American Jewish Congress (Northern California Division).