Following a nearly 30-year career in government, the private sector, and legal academia, Emily Garcia Uhrig has been appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Garcia Uhrig brings broad legal experience to the superior court—in practice, government service, and academia. Most recently, she was a professor of law at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, where she had been teaching since 2006.

From 2001 to 2006, Garcia Uhrig served as a staff attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; from 1997 to 2001, she was a deputy federal public defender with the Office of the Federal Public Defender, Central District of California. She also worked as an attorney-advisor at the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel from 1995 to 1996.

Early in her career, Garcia Uhrig accepted an associate position at Hogan and Hartson from 1991 to 1992 and then again from 1993 to 1995. She served as a law clerk for the Honorable Harry Pregerson at the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit from 1992 to 1993.