Magistrate Judge Rozella A. Oliver was appointed in 2015. She has presided over jury and bench
trials in a variety of civil cases, including employment, contract, fraud, insurance, and civil rights.
She also has served as a settlement judge in hundreds of cases, including matters related to business
litigation, intellectual property, environmental, data breach, insurance, patent and trade secrets,
contract, and civil rights disputes.
Prior to her appointment, Judge Oliver served as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of
Justice Tax Division and later as an Assistant United States Attorney, first in Washington, D.C.,
and then in Los Angeles. During her 15 years of public service with the Department of Justice,
Judge Oliver tried dozens of civil and criminal bench and jury trials and argued more than a dozen
appeals.
Judge Oliver received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College with honors and her law
degree from Stanford Law School with distinction. After graduating from law school, she was a
law clerk for the Honorable Douglas P. Woodlock of the U.S. District Court for the District of
Massachusetts.
Judge Oliver is one of the judicial officers of the Substance Abuse Treatment and Reentry (STAR)
program in Los Angeles.
