Judge Ramirez served as a federal District Court judge, Eastern District of California; Appellate Judge, by appointment, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1980-1990); Municipal/Superior Court Judge, Sacramento County, California (1977-1980).

EXPERIENCE AND SPECIALTIES

After retiring from the federal bench, Judge Ramirez practiced law as a Senior Litigation partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in Sacramento, and also specialized in dispute resolution with a primary focus on complex business and commercial litigation, employment (wrongful termination, sex, race, age, handicap discrimination) personal injury, insurance coverage, environmental and class action disputes. In 1996, he left Orrick, Herrington to work full time as a neutral. He presided over 3,000 jury trials, settlement conferences and/or mediations representing clients in areas of tort litigation in State and Federal court.

SPECIAL HONORS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Faculty Member/Chair, National Employment Law Institute (NELI) since 1990; Author/Speaker "The Nuts and Bolts of Federal Trial Practice," sponsored by the Federal Bar Association (1989-Present); Board of Advisors, Faculty Member/Lecturer, Orientation in American Law Program, University of California at Davis (1990-present);

Speaker, "Bridging The Gap Program," sponsored by the Barristers’ Club of Sacramento and The Daily Recorder; Speaker, Equal Employment Advisory Council (EEAC), San Francisco.

EDUCATION

LL.B, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Los Angeles, 1970

B.A., California State University, Los Angeles, 1967