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Bonnie Hough
Supervising Attorney Administrative Office of the Court's Center for Families, Children & the Courts (AOC) California |
Prior to joining AOC, she was a private family law practitioner. She is a founder of the Family Law Center, a nonprofit legal services organization in Marin County that assists pro se litigants with family law matters, and served as its executive director for six years. Currently, she serves on the State Bar's Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, and in the past has served on the board of the Marin County Law Library, Marin Women Lawyers, and numerous other committees. As staff to the Judicial Council's Task Force on Self-Represented Litigants, she serves as a liaison to the California Access to Justice Commission and the California Legal Services Coordinating Council and oversees seven grant programs providing funding to self-help programs in the courts. In this position she also coordinates the legal review and translation of the California courts self-help website, drafts Judicial Council rules and forms relating to self-represented litigants in family law, makes presentations on issues such as unbundling of legal services and the role of court staff in providing legal information, and encourages consideration of issues of self-represented litigants throughout the court system.
She received her B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1983, M.P.A. from San Francisco State University in 1985, and J.D. from Hastings College of the Law in 1987.