Hon. Holly J. Fujie

Judge Holly Fujie has an Independent Calendar Unlimited Civil Courtroom in the Mosk (Central Civil) Courthouse in Los Angeles. She was appointed to the bench in 2011 by Governor Jerry Brown.

Judge Fujie has degrees from UC Berkeley, earning her AB in 1975 and J.D. in 1978. She practiced law in Los Angeles for the last 21 years prior to her appointment to the bench. Judge Fujie was a shareholder at the Buchalter firm, specializing in complex civil litigation in the trial and appellate courts of the State and Federal systems.

Judge Fujie has served as President of the California State Bar; the UC Berkeley Alumni Association; and the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association and the Chancery Club. She has also received numerous awards for her work in the profession, including the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Daniel K. Inouye Trailblazer Award; the National Association of Women Judges' Joan Dempsey Klein Distinguished Jurist Award; the Constitutional Rights Foundation's James A. Cobey Judge of the Year Award; and UC Berkeley School of Law's Citation Award. Judge Fujie is a frequent speaker on both professional development issues and substantive law. She has written for a number of CEB and other publications throughout her career.