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Basic Training: Family Law 2025 — Presenter Bios

 

 

Hon. Anne Kiley is a Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, assigned to the family law division at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse. Prior to being appointed as a judicial officer, Judge Kiley was a Certified Family Law Specialist, Certified by the State Bar of California, and a partner of and head of the family law department at Elkins Kalt in Century City. Judge Kiley graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, with honors, and received her J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. Judge Kiley was an Associate Editor of the University of Michigan Law School Law Review and was made a member of the Michigan Chapter of the Order of the Coif. Judge Kiley has been an adjunct professor of law at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, where she taught Family Law and Community Property courses. Judge Kiley serves as Program Director for CFLR and as such teaches multiple courses, including the annual Family Law Refresher Course, the Advanced Family Law Course and trial advocacy programs.



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. 


 
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