Carolyn Kuhl

From 1986 to 1995, Kuhl was a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson.

[2] On June 22, 2001, Kuhl was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated by the Judge James R. Browning who had taken senior status in 2000.

California's two Democratic senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, announced their opposition to Kuhl's nomination.

[4] In 2006, new Bush nominee Sandra Segal Ikuta was confirmed to the seat to which Kuhl had originally been nominated.

Kuhl has also served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Civil Jury Instructions as well as the Collaborative Court-County Working Group on Enhanced Collections.

[8] Kuhl lives with her two daughters and her husband, William "Bill" Highberger, who is also a judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court.