Judge Michele Elizabeth Flurer is originally from New Jersey and received her undergraduate degree from UC Irvine in 1983 and her J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law in 1986. During law school, she interned at the New Jersey public defender’s office in Camden County and for a judge who heard criminal cases. After passing the California bar in 1987, she worked as a litigation associate at Knapp, Peterson, and Clark focusing on insurance coverage issues, and then moved to Baker and McKenzie in 1989. After that, she became general counsel for American Tours International, during which time she volunteered as a prosecutor for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office and as a temporary judge, mediator, and arbitrator. In 2006, she was elected to commissioner at the Los Angeles Superior Court and was later appointed to the bench by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010. She is a former president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Barristers and a former LACBA trustee.
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Los Angeles Superior Court - Courtroom Rules
The Robing Room - Hon. Michele E. Flurer
Los Angeles Superior Court Names Three as Commissioners - Metropolitan News-Enterprise
Schwarzenegger Names 19 to Superior Courts, 11 in Los Angeles - Metropolitan News-Enterprise
3 South Bay residents among 11 new Superior Court judges - Daily Bulletin