Gordon L. Files

Gordon L. Files
Associate Justice, Division 3
February 5, 1962 to December 14, 1964
Presiding Justice, Division 4
December 14, 1964 to February 28, 1982

Born March 5, 1912 in Fort Dodge, Iowa
Died January 12, 1995

EDUCATION
LL.B., Yale University School of Law, 1937
A.B., University of California at Los Angeles

State Bar Admission December, 1937

JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE
Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division 4
December 14, 1964 - February 28, 1982

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division 3
February 5, 1962 - December 14, 1964

Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court
September 28, 1959 – February 5, 1962, Appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Sr.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Freston & Files, Los Angeles, 1938 - 1959

U.S. Naval Reserve, World War II

Law Clerk, 8th U.S. Circuit Court