Stuart R. Pollak

Stuart R. Pollak is a Presiding Justice of the First District Court of Appeal, Division Four. He was born in San Pedro, California in 1937 and graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco as valedictorian in 1955. He then went on to Stanford University and Harvard Law School, graduating with honors. He has worked as a law clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren, a Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General, and a staff member of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He was also a partner at Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady & Pollak and a Judge of the San Francisco Superior Court.