Ami Fields-Meyer is a public servant, writer, and aide to the Mayor of Los Angeles. He leads Mayor Eric Garcetti’s community affairs and civic engagement operations for more than 500,000 residents on the city’s Westside, and works on policy issues related to housing, civil rights, climate change, transportation, and education. Ami also co-leads the Mayor’s citywide interfaith organizing. Ami’s writing on issues of policy and culture has appeared in The Atlantic, Talking Points Memo, The Forward, The Jewish Journal, the Huffington Post, and other publications. He was previously Communications Director to California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel and served in senior roles on Gabriel’s successful campaigns. Ami is also the co-founder of the nationwide organization TableTalk and an alumnus of the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs. He is a graduate of Emory University.

Hon. Scott Gordon (Ret.) serves as a neutral with Signature Resolution. He was a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge for seventeen years, serving in both the Criminal and the Family Law Division as Assistant Supervising Judge and Supervising Judge. T he Chief Justice of California selected Judge Gordon to serve on the Judicial Council of California in 2016 and as a member of the special working group on Bail and Pretrial Detention Reform in 2017.

Prior to joining the bench, Judge Gordon served with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for sixteen years and as a police officer and detective for the Santa Monica Police Department.

A graduate of California State University Dominguez Hills and Southwestern Law School, Judge Gordon has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Southwestern for thirty years and has also taught law internationally. He served as a Legal Expert for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands and has served as an advisor to other judges on Hague Convention matters.

Chet Kronenberg is a litigation partner in the Los Angeles office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Chet grew up in Rockford, Illinois and earned his B.A. from Tufts University in 1990 and his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1993. After starting his legal career in New York, he and his wife moved to Los Angeles in 2001 where together they’ve raised three children. In addition to serving on the LevittQuinn Board, Chet is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Southern California Tennis Association. Having long admired LevittQuinn’s work, he is honored to join its Board of Directors.

Parima Pandkhou is a partner of Wasser, Cooperman & Mandles, PC. She has been practicing family law since 2004 undertaking a broad range of family law matters such as dissolution of marriage, separation, support, child custody and visitation, division of property, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, as well as handling cases involving international jurisdictional issues and complex asset structures. Ms. Pandkhou has also successfully handled a number of family law appeals. Prior to practicing family law, Ms. Pandkhou gained considerable business litigation experience. Ms. Pandkhou is a certified mediator and volunteered for years as a mediator at the Stanley Mosk courthouse in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and Beverly Hills Bar Association family law sections.

The LevittQuinn board held their annual retreat in January to plan for the coming year.

We are so grateful to Marty Dutch , Vice President of Philanthropy Services at First Foundation, who helped the board members identify their strengths and strategically set their 2020 objectives. We thank our friends at Feinberg, Mindel, Brandt & Klein, LLP who generously allowed our board to meet in their beautiful office space!

Ashlee Hamilton, Vice Chair

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

Ann Marie DeSimone

Klopert & Ravden, LLP

Ronita Khakshoor

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP

In January, we welcomed new staff attorney Samuel Martinez to the LevittQuinn team.

Sam is the son of Guatemalan immigrants. Raised in the Long Beach/Compton area, he earned his JD from Southwestern Law School and his BA in Spanish and Latin American Studies from UCSB. While in law school, Sam interned with nonprofit and government organizations, actively participated in the Street Law, Immigration, and Community Lawyering clinics, and served in leadership roles with several volunteer associations. Sam’s life experiences influenced his recognition of the importance of quality legal advocacy for low-income communities. He is excited to join the LevittQuinn team and looks forward to helping advance our mission.

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