Background
Kato, Sheila S. was born on November 30, 1947 in Kaneohe, Hawaii, United States.
Kato, Sheila S. was born on November 30, 1947 in Kaneohe, Hawaii, United States.
University of Hawaii (Bachelor of Arts, with high honors, 1969). University of California at Berkeley (Juris Doctor, 1973).
Worked at Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland (Beverly Hills, California) specializing in Appellate, Law and Motion and Related Practice in State and Federal Courts. Admitted to the bar, 1973, California. 1974, United States. District Court, Central District of California.
1976, United States.
District Court, Southern District of California. 1980, United States. District Court, Northern District of California. 1983, United States. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Phi Beta Kappa.
Phi Kappa Phi. Alpha Lambda Delta. Member, University of California Law Review, 1970-1971. Associate Editor, Ecology Law Quarterly, 1971-1972.
Research Attorney, Justice Marcus M. Kaufman, Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division Two (Later Associate Justice, California Supreme Court), 1973-1974.
Member: Los Angeles County and American Bar Associations. State Bar of California (Member, Litigation Section).
Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland established in 1983, specializes in appellate practice. The firm has briefed and argued appeals in the United States Supreme Court, in every state and federal appellate court in California, and in the Supreme Courts of California, Alaska and Nevada.
In addition to appeals, the firm has prepared and filed numerous petitions for review, for certiorari and for extraordinary writs and has argued these matters in the reviewing courts.
The firm"s attorneys appear as counsel of record or as amicus counsel on scores of published and hundreds of unpublished appellate decisions.
Member, University of California Law Review, 1970-1971. Associate Editor, Ecology Law Quarterly, 1971-1972. Research Attorney, Justice Marcus M. Kaufman, Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division Two (Later Associate Justice, California Supreme Court), 1973-1974.
Member: Los Angeles County and American Bar Associations.
State Bar of California (Member, Litigation Section).