Jun 27, 2024
Today we are celebrating our 200th Episode with the return of aspecial friend of the podcast, Judge Tanya Acker.
Acker serves as one of three judges on Amazon Freevee's TribunalJustice, created by Judge Judy Sheindlin. Acker also hosts "TheTanya Acker Show" podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify,Overcast, and Pocketcasts. Most recently, Acker was a judge on theEmmy-nominated series, "Hot Bench."
Acker is also the author of "Make Your Case: Finding Your Win inCivil Court," published by Diversion Books. In the book, Ackerprovides readers with curated, targeted information about whatpeople want to know: what happens during court proceedings and why,how to best prepare for it — and how to avoid court entirely andfind out if there is a better way.
Acker is an experienced civil litigator who has represented awide array of clients, from major automobile manufacturers inhigh-stakes product liability litigation to media companies inhotly contested trade secret disputes. She has been a featuredcommentator on "Good Morning America," "The View," "EntertainmentTonight," "Wendy Williams," "The Talk," "Inside Edition,""Banfield," "The O'Reilly Factor," "Larry King Live," "CNNReports," "Anderson Cooper 360," "Issues with Jane Velez Mitchell,""Extra," "Your World With Neil Cavuto," "HLN's Special Report,""CNBC Reports," Great Britain's "GMTV" and Sky News, and variousother broadcasts. She also guest co-hosted CNBC's "Power Lunch,"and "C Magazine" included her in an election season profile onnoteworthy California women in politics. Acker also has contributedto the Huffington Post and served as a Temporary Judge in the LosAngeles County Superior Court Temporary Judge Program.
While a student at Yale Law School, Acker represented low-incomewomen in family law cases and served as a teaching assistant inConstitutional Law and Civil Procedure courses. She also worked atthe Office of White House Counsel, the Civil Rights Division in theUnited States Department of Justice and the private law firms Irell& Manella, O'Melveny & Myers and Williams & Connolly. At Williams &Connolly, she assisted President Clinton's personal lawyers withpress interviews, worked on the preparation of Congressionaltestimony for pending product liability legislation and researchedFirst Amendment issues.
After graduating from Yale, Acker served as a judicial law clerkto the Honorable Dorothy Wright Nelson on the Ninth U.S. CircuitCourt of Appeals.
After her clerkship, the Office of the Solicitor General in theU.S. Department of Justice awarded Acker a Bristow Fellowship.While working as a Bristow Fellow, Acker drafted Supreme Courtbriefs and helped prepare the Solicitor General for oral argumentbefore the High Court. Among the cases on which Acker worked wasClinton v Jones, where she assisted both the Solicitor General andPresident Clinton's personal attorneys in preparing for oralargument.
In private practice, Acker's legal work spanned a broad varietyof matters, from civil litigation involving public and privateentities, to various constitutional cases, to providingconstitutional cases, to the provision of business counseling andadvice. She also maintained a commitment to pro bono work,receiving the ACLU's First Amendment Award for her successfulrepresentation of a group of homeless individuals against the Cityof Santa Barbara. Acker later worked in entertainment industryoutreach for the Kerry/Edwards presidential campaign and as DeputyCampaign Manager for the Los Angeles mayoral campaign of CityCouncilman Bernard C. Parks. After that, she worked as the GeneralCounsel of a company that manufactured emissions controlproducts.
Acker received her B.A. degree at Howard University in 1992,where she graduated summa cum laude and was a member of Phi BetaKappa. She was awarded a Luard Scholarship for study at St. Anne'sCollege at Oxford University and served there as theco-editor-in-chief of the Oxford University Women's Magazine. AtYale Law School, she was awarded an Earl Warren Scholarship by theNAACP and a co*ker Fellowship by the Yale faculty.
Acker maintains an active involvement in various philanthropic,civic and business organizations. A volunteer with Love Takes Root,she has traveled to Haiti to work in a clinic and orphanage foundedby that organization. She is a member of the Beverly Hills West(CA) chapter of The Links, Incorporated, and additionally serves onthe boards of Public Counsel, the Western Justice Center, the BoyScouts of America (the National and Western Los Angeles CountyCouncil Boards); PacWest Bancorp; and as trustee of the PacificBattleship Center, which operates the Battleship USS Iowa Museum.She is also a member of the Yale Law School Executive Committee andthe Yale Law School Fund Board.
ON THE KNOWS with Randall Kenneth Jones is a podcast featuringhost Randall Kenneth Jones (bestselling author, speaker & creativecommunications consultant) and Susan C. Bennett (the original voiceof Siri).
ON THE KNOWS is produced and edited by Kevin Randall Jones.
TANYA ACKER Online:
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Web: www.TanyaAckerShow.com
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