Beverly High Alumnus David Ross Launches Campaign for Superior Court Judge

A Beverly Hills High School graduate with more than three decades of courtroom experience, David Ross has announced his candidacy for judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Ross currently serves as a Grade IV Deputy Alternate Public Defender for Los Angeles County. According to the campaign announcement, he has represented more than 10,000 indigent defendants, completed 113 jury trials, handled more than 2,000 preliminary hearings and argued thousands of contested motions in courtrooms across the county.

“Every person who appears in court is heard, so that even if they do not prevail, they leave the courtroom knowing that the judge listened,” Ross said.

Ross earned a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from the University of California, Davis, and a juris doctor from the University of West Los Angeles School of Law. The release states that he graduated in the top 13% of his class and passed the California Bar Exam on his first attempt.

Before entering the legal profession, Ross worked as a television journalist and documentary producer, including reporting roles that covered politics, courts and major public events. He later served as a deputy public defender in Riverside County before joining the Los Angeles County Alternate Public Defender’s Office in 2000, according to the campaign.

The campaign also said Ross served as an adjunct professor of law at Western State University College of Law from 2002 to 2006 and as a judge pro tem in Los Angeles County Superior Court, presiding over small claims and limited civil matters.