Elizabeth Annette "Beth" Grimes (born 1954) is an Associate Justice of the California Second District Court of Appeal, Division Eight, having been appointed to the post by Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010.
[1][2] After attending Mount Holyoke College for one year, she transferred to the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her bachelor's degree with Phi Beta Kappa honors.
[2] After eighteen years in the private sector at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Republican Governor Pete Wilson appointed Grimes as a Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
[3] Later that year, she presided over a court case where the jury awarded a tow truck driver $5,000 in damages after he was assaulted by Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County star Jason Wahler.
[1][2] In the November 2010 elections, 72.5 percent of voters supported retaining Grimes as an associate justice of the Court of Appeal.