Carolyn Kuhl

Carolyn Barbara Kuhl (born July 24, 1952) is a judge on the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles and a former nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She became a Superior Court judge in 1995 and was nominated to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on June 22, 2001, by President George W. Bush. Background Kuhl was born on July 24, 1952, in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1974, Judge Kuhl received a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Princeton University with honors. Judge Kuhl was in the second class of women ever to graduate from Princeton. She graduated with honors from Duke Law School in 1977 where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and an editor of the Duke Law Journal. From 1977 to 1978, Kuhl clerked for future U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Anthony Kennedy, when he was an appellate judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.