Dennis M. Perluss (born May 12, 1948) is the Presiding Justice of the California Second District Court of Appeal, Division Seven, having been appointed to the post by

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Gray Davis Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis Jr. (born December 26, 1942) is an American attorney and former politician who served as the 37th governor of California from 1999 until he was recalled and removed from office in 2003. He is the second state governor ...

in 2003. Perluss received an A.B. from

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in 1970 and a J.D. from

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in 1973. From 1973–1974, he was a

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to U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge

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. From 1974–1975, he was a law clerk to

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. After his clerkship ended, Perluss was an attorney, until 1999, when Governor

appointed him to the

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. In 2001, Davis appointed him as an associate justice of the California Second District Court of Appeal, Division Seven and then elevated him to Presiding Justice in 2003. Perluss and his wife, Rabbi Emily H. Feigenson, Chaplain at the

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, live in

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with their three children.

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Official biography of Dennis M. PerlussDennis Perluss profile on Judgepedia
1948 births Harvard Law School alumni Judges of the California Courts of Appeal Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Lawyers from Los Angeles Lawyers from Sacramento, California Living people Politicians from Sacramento, California Stanford University alumni 21st-century American judges {{California-state-judge-stub

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