The Hon.

Holly

J.

Fujie

Judge Holly Fujie, a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and the U.C. Berkeley School of Law, is a 2011 appointee to the Los Angeles Superior Court.  Prior to her retirement in March 2026, she presided over a civil, independent calendar court, and previously sat in Family Law.  Prior to her appointment, Judge Fujie was a shareholder at the Los Angeles-based law firm Buchalter Nemer, and was named by the Daily Journal as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Lawyers in California and one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in Southern California.  In 2008-2009 she was the 1st Asian American to serve as President of the State Bar of California.  Judge Fujie serves as Co-Chair of the Multi-Cultural Bar Alliance of Southern California and sits  on the Boards of the Asian Pacific American Women Lawyers Alliance of Los Angeles, the California Judges Foundation, the Foundation for Judicial Education and the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles.  While on the Court, Judge Fujie served as Chair of the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Community Outreach Committee, on the Advisory Board of Continuing Education of the Bar and on the California Judicial Council’s State/Federal Courts Council, and while in practice she was Chair of the California State Bar’s Council on Access & Fairness, President of the Chancery Club  and Chair of the Board of Bet Tzedek Legal Services.  Judge Fujie sits on the Advisory Boards of the Japanese American Bar Association and the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles. She is a Past President of the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association.  Judge Fujie served as an Advisor to the ALI’s Restatement of the Law: Children and the Law. From 1991 until 2025, she served on Senator Dianne Feinstein’s and then Senator Laphonza Butler's Judicial Advisory Committee for judicial and U.S. Attorney appointments to the Central District of California, and Governor Newsom has appointed her to the Judicial Selection Advisory Committee for Los Angeles County and the 2d DCA.  She has received many awards for her service to the profession, including the American Bar Association's Margaret Brent Award, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s Daniel K. Inouye Trailblazer Award, the National Association of Women Judges’ Joan Dempsey Klein Award, the National Association of Women Lawyers’ M. Ashley Dickerson Diversity Award, the American Bar Association’s Solo and Small Firm Section’s Difference Maker Award, and the U.C. Berkeley School of Law Citation Award.  She lives in West Los Angeles with her husband, attorney Lee Cotugno.  They have two children, Sage and Thomas.