Justice Hoffstadt is the Presiding Justice of Division Five of the Second District of the California Court of Appeal. He has served on the Court of Appeal since 2014 and served as a judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court from 2010 until 2014. As an adjunct professor at various law schools, including at USC Gould School of Law, he has taught evidence, criminal procedure, and trial advocacy. He is a faculty member of the California Judicial College and has taught numerous judicial education courses. Justice Hoffstadt received his B.S. from California Polytechnic University and his J.D. from UCLA School of Law. Following law school, Justice Hoffstadt clerked for the Honorable Cynthia Holcomb Hall on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for the Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Justice Hoffstadt worked as a Special Counsel to the Federal Communications Commission; as Senior Counsel in the Office of Policy Development for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.; as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California; and as a partner in the Issues & Appeals practice group at Jones Day.