Richard M. Mosk

Who is Richard M. Mosk?

Richard M. Mosk is an associate justice of the California Courts of Appeal, Second District.

Richard M. Mosk was born in Los Angeles, California, and is the son of Stanley Mosk, a former California Attorney General and state Supreme Court Justice.

He graduated from Stanford University, with great distinction and Harvard Law School, cum laude. While at Stanford, he earned three athletic letters. After military service, he was a member of the staff of the Warren Commission and a clerk to California Supreme Court Justice Mathew Tobriner.

Mosk was a litigation partner in a large Los Angeles law firm. He was a Special Deputy Federal Public Defender, 1975-76. Mosk was the United States appointed judge on the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal when it was formed and served from 1981-1984. He was a substitute judge on that Tribunal from 1984 to 1997. In 1997, he was reappointed to that Tribunal and served until 2001, when he was appointed as an associate justice on the California Court of Appeal.

Mosk was a member of the Los Angeles County-City Fire Board of Inquiry that made recommendations to deal with brush fires.