Judge Josephine L. Staton was appointed to the Central District of California by President Barack Obama in 2010. She sits in the Southern Division in Santa Ana.
Staton was born in 1961 in St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated from William Jewell College and earned her law degree from Harvard Law School, then clerked for Judge John R. Gibson on the Eighth Circuit. She spent 15 years at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco and Newport Beach, becoming a partner in 1995. Governor Gray Davis appointed her to the Orange County Superior Court in 2002, where she was based in Santa Ana.
Education
- Harvard Law School, J.D., 1986
- William Jewell College, B.A., 1983
Career
- Law clerk, Judge John R. Gibson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 1986–1987
- Associate and partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco and Newport Beach, 1987–2002
- Judge, Superior Court of California, Orange County, 2002–2010 (appointed by Governor Gray Davis)
- U.S. District Judge, Central District of California, 2010–present