Candidate for
Justice, California State Court of Appeal; District 2, Division 1

On July 1, 2009, following her nomination by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Victoria Gerrard Chaney was confirmed to the Court of Appeal, Second District, Division One, after having served nineteen years on the bench as a trial judge. Justice Chaney was appointed by Governor George Deukmejian to the Los Angeles Municipal Court in 1990 and elevated to the Los Angeles Superior Court by Governor Pete Wilson in 1994. She presided over criminal cases in Compton, a civil docket at the Mosk Courthouse, and, from 2000 until her elevation to the appellate court, class actions and complex litigation at the Central Civil West courthouse, in the court's Complex Litigation Division.

Prior to attending law school, Justice Chaney was a registered nurse at the LAC-USC and Cedars-Sinai medical centers, including work with psychiatric patients on lockdown ward. She keeps her nursing registry current. Before appointment to the bench, Justice Chaney was an associate with Dryden Harrington and Swartz and then served eleven years in the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, the last ten as an assistant city attorney in the office's Civil Liability Division.

From an eight-cent wrongful sales tax case to a multi-billion-dollar faulty plumbing case, from acid spills in Nevada to oil spills in the Los Angeles Harbor, from boating-under-the-influence to x-ray scanning to view beneath the clothing of prison visitors, and from Bridgestone Tires to the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Justice Chaney presided over many fascinating cases while on the bench in the superior court's Complex Litigation Division.

For further information please see http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/courtsofappeal/2ndDistrict/justices/chaney.htm

Recent opinions can be found at http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/