Education
Stanford University; Harvard Law School.
Stanford University; Harvard Law School.
Perluss received an Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in 1970 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1973. From 1973–1974, he was a law clerk to United States. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Shirley Hufstedler. From 1974–1975, he was a law clerk to United States. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
After his clerkship ended, Perluss was an attorney, until 1999, when Governor Gray Davis appointed him to the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
In 2001, Davis appointed him as an Associate Justice of the California Second District Court of Appeal, Division Seven and then elevated him to Presiding Justice in 2003.