Hon. Brigid Campo has been assigned to the Family Law Division of the San Diego Superior Court since September 2023. She previously served as an administrative law judge for the California Department of Social Services earlier in 2023. Prior to her judicial roles, Commissioner Campo served the San Diego Superior Court as a research attorney starting in 2019 focusing on family law related legal issues, policies, rules, and other projects. Before she began working at the court, Commissioner Campo practiced family law in the private sector, including at the law firm of Ashworth, Blanchet, and Christenson, APC; and became a Certified Family Law Specialist in 2016, which she maintained during the remainder of her private practice tenure. She served as the Family Law Section Chair for the San Diego County Bar Association and has been recognized for her pro bono services for the organization's Servicemember Civil Relief Act pro bono panel and also the American Bar Association's Military Pro Bono Project. Commissioner Campo earned her J.D. from Santa Barbara College of Law and graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.

Hon. Dennis A. Cornell (Ret.) was a trial lawyer for 20 years, a Superior Court judge for nine years, and he recently retired from the 5th District Court of Appeal after fifteen years. He became a CFLS in 1980 and a fellow of the AAML in 1982. He tried approximately 50 jury trials to verdict as a lawyer, and over 120 jury trials and several hundred court trials as a trial court judge. He was the lead appellate attorney on over 20 family law appeals resulting in 12 published decisions. He has argued family law cases in the California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Justice Cornell currently provides private judging services through Resolution Remedies.  

David Friedman, CFLS, is a Certified Family Law Specialist, California State Bar Board of Specialization since 2012.  David was an adjunct Professor of Law at Glendale University College of Law for over 10 years.  Now he is an adjunct Professor of Law at University of West Los Angeles College of Law where he teaches Remedies.  In addition to handling enforcement of judgment matters David serves as Minor’s Counsel in Family Law and Probate Guardianship matters.

Ira M. Friedman, CFLS, has been a Certified Family Law Specialist since 1983. He is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) and the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL), and past president of the Southern California Chapter of the AAML. Ira is a past Chair of both the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Family Law Section and the Beverly Hills Bar Association, Family Law Section. 

Ira was the prevailing attorney in the Court of Appeals cases of In Re Marriage of Gavron (1988) 203 CA 3d 705 and In Re Marriage of Keech (1999) 189 CA 3d 849.

Ira is a partner in the law firm of Friedman & Friedman, where a portion of his practice is devoted to enforcement orders and judgments.

Hon. Scott M. Gordon (Ret.) serves as a neutral with Signature Resolution in Los Angeles.  He was a Judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court and served on that bench for seventeen years.  In his latest assignment, he was in the Family Law Division in a Long Cause Court handling complex family law trials and settlement conferences. He was the Supervising Judge of the Criminal Division.  He served as the Assistant Supervising Judge of the Criminal Division and in the Family Law Division as the Assistant Supervising Judge and Supervising Judge. In 2016, Judge Gordon was selected by the Chief Justice of California to serve as a member of the Judicial Council of California.  In 2017, the Chief Justice of California appointed him as a member of the Chief Justice’s special working group on Bail and Pretrial Detention Reform. In January 2019, the State Department of the United States invited him to serve as a member of the International Network of Hague Convention Judges.

Hon. Dianna Gould-Saltman (Ret.) is a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge. She spent 25 years practicing family law before her 2010 appointment and nearly 14 years as a family court judge. She now serves as a mediator, arbitrator and judge pro tem at Signature Resolution.​
​She received a B.A. in psychology from the University of California, Irvine and a J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law.
She is a Judicial Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Law and of the International Academy of Family Law. She served as 2018-2019 President of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. Her awards include the Pasadena Bar Association Family Law Section 2013 Family Law Judge of the Year Award, the AAML, Southern California Chapter 2014 Los Angeles County Family Law Judge of the Year, the Levitt and Quinn Family Law Center 2015 Outstanding Community Service Award, the 2015 Association of Certified Family Law Specialists Hall of Fame Award, the 2023 AFCC John E. Van Duzer Distinguished Service Award, and the Los Angeles County Bar, Family Law Section’s 2023 Spencer Brandeis Award.

Ronald S. Granberg, CFLS, is a Past President of the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists, a Past President of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Northern California Chapter, and a Past President of the Monterey County Bar Association.  He has received the ACFLS Hall of Fame Award, the AAML NorCal Chapter Fellow of the Year Award, the AAML SoCal Chapter Family Law Person of the Year Award, and the Monterey County Bar Association Lewis L. Fenton Excellence in Advocacy Award.  Ron is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers.  He taught Legal Research and Writing at the Monterey College of Law for 37 years, also teaching Trial Advocacy there for 24 years, and receiving its Professor of the Year Award six times.  He has taught at the eight-day Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute co-sponsored by the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and the American Bar Association.  Ron has published 23 family law articles, is the author of California Legal Research, and is a co-author of the Continuing Education of the Bar publication Crossover Issues in Estate Planning and Family Law.  He has made over 200 professional presentations.

Jenna E. Hackett is a partner at the law firm of Feuerstein, Murphy, Beals & Hackett, LLP, practicing exclusively Family Law. She is active in the San Diego County Bar Association as the current Chair of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act Committee, as well as having served as past Chair for both the Military and Family Law Sections. She is the Treasurer for the San Diego Family Law Bar Association’s Board of Directors and was honored to be the 2024 recipient of their Michael C. Shea Award for Service to the Family Law Bar. She has presented at CLEs for both organizations and is engaged as an instructor for the annual SCRA Pro Bono Training. Committed to helping the military community, Jenna volunteers her time with the Homeless Court for Veterans, as well as other programs that provide resources to servicemembers, both active duty and retired. Jenna sits as a Judge Pro Tem in San Diego’s Family Support Division and she is a lecturer at the University of San Diego’s School of Law Paralegal Program for their Family Law course.

Stephen D. Hamilton, CFLS, has been an attorney for 29 years, with a practice in San Luis Obispo County devoted almost exclusively to family law. He received a Bachelor of Science in Political Economy of Natural Resources from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987. After completing his first year of law school at Hastings College of the Law, he pursued an alternative route to becoming an attorney and completed the Law Office Study Program.

Stephen has been a Certified Specialist in Family Law since 2004. He is a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He is a past Chair of the Family Law Executive Committee of the California Lawyers Association (FLEXCOM). Stephen has served on the Board of the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists, the California State Bar Paraprofessional Working Group and is currently a Commissioner on the Judicial Nominations Evaluation Commission. 

Tracy Farryl Katz, Esq., CPA, is a partner at Gursey | Schneider LLP where she specializes in forensic accounting. Ms. Katz’s expertise covers a multitude of litigation support services including business appraisals, determinations of gross cash flow available for support, net spendable evaluations, pension plan allocations, stock option apportionments, characterizations of assets, analyses of reimbursement claims, and lifestyle analyses. She is also a frequent lecturer at various continuing education seminars. Ms. Katz has authored and co-authored articles and/or lectured on the use of forensic accountants in marital dissolution, celebrity goodwill and in analyzing pre-and post-nuptial agreements, as well as complex asset tracings and child and spousal support for high income earners.  Ms. Katz is a member of both the national and state societies for Certified Public Accountants and a past Chair of the Family Law Section of her state society; she is also a member of the Family Law Section of the Beverly Hills and California State Bar Associations, as well as a liaison member of the executive committee of the Family Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar. The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Foundation’s Forensic & Business Valuation Division admitted Ms. Katz as one of only 28 Charter Members from across the nation.

Staci M. Lambright, CFLS, is a partner at Sound Law Group LLP in San Francisco. Since 2017, Ms. Lambright has been a frequent teacher for California Family Law Report (CFLR)/The Rutter Group, including teaching domestic violence, parentage and spousal support for the Advanced Family Law Course and co-teaching trial advocacy programs. She has been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer by San Francisco Magazine every year since 2020. Ms. Lambright has also been honored by the California Legislature, Chinese Consulate in San Francisco, San Francisco Bar Association, and San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium for her work on cases involving domestic violence, custody jurisdiction, and high-conflict custody issues. Ms. Lambright graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from UCLA in 1997 and received her J.D. from the University of Texas in 2001.

Avi Levy, CFLS, is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law and has been practicing family law exclusively since 2002. In 2011, he became certified as a family law specialist by the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization. In 2020, Mr. Levy was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and in 2021 he was inducted as a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers. Mr. Levy is the current President, former Vice President, former Secretary, and former Legislative Director on the Board of Directors of ACFLS. Mr. Levy is also a former Chair, former Treasurer, and former Advisor to FLEXCOM. Throughout Los Angeles County and California, he is known for specializing in high net worth and high conflict cases.  In addition to settling and trying hundreds of high asset divorce cases, Mr. Levy also handles premarital agreements, postnuptial agreements, contempt proceedings, domestic violence proceedings, parentage actions, family law appeals, and civil harassment proceedings. Mr. Levy’s impressive work also extends beyond the courtroom. He is heavily involved in local, state, national, and international family law organizations and has testified before the California Assembly and California Senate Judiciary Committees on numerous occasions in connection with pending family law legislation.

Christopher C. Melcher, CFLS-CALS, is dual specialized in family law and appellate law. His practice focuses on the financial aspects of divorce, litigation regarding premarital agreements, and international family law. He is a Fellow of the AAML and served as Chair of the State Bar of California Family Law Section for the 2011-2012 term. He has presented over 200 continuing legal education programs and published books and articles on family law.

Hon. Scott J. Nord was appointed Commissioner in 2014 and elevated to a Judge in 2023. Since taking the bench, Judge Nord has been assigned to a trial courtroom that handles all aspects of Family Law proceedings, including all areas of custody, visitation, support, dissolution proceedings, property division, and domestic violence and civil harassment matters. For his first eight years on the bench, Judge Nord also simultaneously oversaw a Probate courtroom handling all matters dealing with wills, trusts, conservatorships, guardianships, disposal of remains, and end-of-life determinations. 

Judge Nord is also a prolific writer and speaker on family law matters for the Center for Judicial Education and Research (CJER), Los Angeles Superior Court, Inns of Court for Southern California, Family Law Institute (FLI), Beverly Hills and Los Angeles Bar Associations, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and the California Judges Association (CJA). 

Judge Nord is currently the Co-Chair of the CJA Family Law Committee, serves on the CJER Family Law Curriculum Committee, and is also an adjunct professor at the University of West Los Angeles School of Law.

Before becoming a Judge, he was a sole practitioner with offices in Beverly Hills and Glendale, California.  

Judge Elizabeth Scully sits in a family law assignment on the Los Angeles Superior Court.  Prior to taking the bench in December 2020, she was a Certified Family Law Specialist in private practice, providing mediation, collaborative, and minor’s counsel services in addition to traditional litigation representation.  She is an adjunct professor at UCLA School of Law, teaching experiential courses in mediation and in negotiation theory and practice.  She has co-authored numerous books and articles on topics relating to consensual dispute resolution in the family law context.