Education
Stanford University.
Stanford University.
She is of Japanese descent. Born Kathryn Doi in Los Angeles, California, she was interned at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center as an infant after President Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. After receiving her diploma from Los Angeles High School in 1959, she was given an Bachelor of Arts in history from Stanford University in 1963 and a Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School in 1970.
From 1971–1978, Todd was an attorney in Little Tokyo.
In 1978, Governor Jerry Brown appointed her to the Los Angeles County Municipal Court, making her the first female Asian American judge in the United States. In 1981, Brown elevated Todd to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, a position she would hold until 2000 when Brown"s former chief of staff, Governor Gray Davis, appointed her to the California Second District Court of Appeal, Division Two.