Biography
Judge Campos is a general jurisdiction state judge in San Diego, California, presiding over a criminal department. She has over twenty-two years of experience, presiding over hundreds of jury trials and thousands of evidentiary hearings. She also served for three years on her court’s appellate division. California Governor Gray Davis appointed her in 2003, and she has been re-elected four times since. Judge Campos is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D. 1988), and a graduate of Stanford University (A.B. 1985 With Distinction).
Before serving as a judge, she served as a federal prosecutor (Assistant United States Attorney) in the Southern District of California. She had both a trial and appellate practice, and she has argued before the United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Earlier in her career she worked as an attorney for Morrison & Foerster (Los Angeles) and for Brobeck (San Diego). She served as a White House Fellow in Washington, D.C. assigned to Attorney General Janet Reno at the United States Department of Justice appointed by President William J. Clinton.
Artificial Intelligence fascinates her. She has presented on artificial intelligence and its impacts on the legal profession, courts and society, at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, ABA Science and Technology AI & Robotics National Institute (Santa Clara Law School), ABTL San Diego, William B. Enright Inn of Court, California Judges Association, California Judicial Education and Research, and RSAC (2025). She is grateful Stanford introduced her to programming (Pascal) in CS105.
