AFFILIATION: Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals

AGE: 55

LAW SCHOOL: Hastings College of the Law, 1986

PREVIOUS JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE: None

For six years, Chico solo Larry Baumbach’s client pursued race bias claims against a former employer — and finally won a jury award. So Baumbach didn’t expect Ninth Circuit chief mediator Claudia Bernard to persuade him to settle.