Judge William F. Highberger handles complex civil matters as part of the Los Angeles Superior Court Complex Civil Litigation Program. Judge Highberger was born in Suffern, New York in 1950. He received his A.B. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University in 1972 and his J.D. from Columbia University in 1975, where he was the Notes and Comments Editor of the Columbia Law Review. Following law school, Judge Highberger clerked for the Honorable William H. Timbers, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, after which he joined the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles, where he became a partner in 1983, with a practice focused on representing employers and employee benefit programs in civil litigation. Judge Highberger was appointed to the bench in 1998 by Governor Pete Wilson and, following assignments to juvenile court and the criminal bench, he was assigned to the Complex Civil Litigation Program in 2001. Judge Highberger is married to Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl of the Los Angeles Superior Court; they have two daughters.
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