Stephen Kaus is a judge in the Alameda County Superior Court, Oakland, California, appointed by Governor Jerry Brown, effective December 2012. Previous to his appointment Kaus was a partner practicing civil litigation attorney at Cooper, White & Cooper LLP in

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and an occasional blog commentator on

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. He is also the brother of journalist

Mickey Kaus Robert Michael "Mickey" Kaus (; born July 6, 1951) is an American journalist, pundit, and author, known for writing Kausfiles, a "mostly political" blog which was featured on ''Slate'' until 2010. Kaus is the author of ''The End of Equality'' and ...

Education

Kaus received his B.A. degree in

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, ''

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'', from the

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in 1970. He also studied politics for a year at the

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. He received his J.D. degree from the

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in 1973.

Career

Kaus began his law career as a deputy public defender for

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California from 1974 to 1980. He then moved to work as a partner at Kaus Kerr and Wagstaffe from 1982 to 1990, before starting a solo practice until 1993. He then served as a lawyer at Cooper White and Cooper LLP, making partner in 1995. Kaus was appointed as a Superior Court Judge in 2012 after a county commissioner's spot was converted. He then ran unopposed on a 2014 ballot, with his current term set to expire in 2021.

References

External links

Stephen Kaus: Twitter Page
Living people American male journalists American people of Austrian-Jewish descent American people of German-Jewish descent Alumni of the University of Sussex Superior court judges in the United States University of California, Los Angeles alumni UC Berkeley School of Law alumni 1948 births Public defenders {{US-journalist-1940s-stub