David Cunningham:  

The Hon. David S. Cunningham III is a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge. Judge Cunningham currently serves as the Supervising Judge for the Complex Civil Litigation Program presiding over product liability cases, consumer protection class actions, labor-related class actions, and mass torts. He was appointed to the court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on January 22, 2009. Judge Cunningham graduated with his B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Southern California (USC) in 1977. He was awarded a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Service Scholarship and received his Juris Doctorate from the New York University School of Law in 1980. In the fall of 1980, Judge Cunningham was admitted to the New York State Bar and began his legal career as an attorney in the Honors Program with the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Voting Rights Section in Washington, D.C. He worked on the redistricting plan for the Texas House of Representatives and tried several voting rights cases throughout the South. His work aided Congress in its decision to extend the Voting Rights Act another 25 years in 1982. In 1983, upon returning to California, Judge Cunningham was admitted to the California State Bar and served as a judicial clerk for the Hon. Terry J. Hatter, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. In 1984, Judge Cunningham joined the Beverly Hills Office of Finley Kumble Heine Underberg Manley & Casey as an associate. F...Expand for more