The Hon.

Curtis

A.

Kin

Honorable Curtis A. Kin has been a judge of the Superior Court of California for Los Angeles County Superior Court since 2013.  He currently sits in the Writs & Receivers Department and has served as Assistant Supervising Judge for the Civil Division.

Judge Kin is active in ongoing judicial education, serving as Associate Dean and faculty for the B.E. Witkin Judicial College for all California judges.  He also serves as Chair of the Civil Education Committee for his court. He is a co-author of California Objections (James Publishing, 22nd ed.) and co-writes the “Civil Case Notes” column for the California Judges’ Association publication, “The Bench.” For over 20 years, Judge Kin has been an adjunct professor teaching courses in advanced trial advocacy, criminal investigations, and criminal procedure at Loyola Law School, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, and the Gould School of Law for the University of Southern California.

Prior to his appointment to the bench, from 2000 to 2013, Judge Kin worked at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, where he served as Chief of Criminal Appeals, Chief of General Crimes, Chief of Domestic Security & Immigration Crimes, and Chief of Criminal Complaints.  He was a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York and served as a law clerk to Hon. Sonia Sotomayor (U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit) and Hon. Jed S. Rakoff (U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y).