Gary S. Slossberg appointed as El Dorado County Superior Court Commissioner

EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. - A new court commissioner has been announced by the El Dorado County Superior Court. After an extensive search and vetting process, Gary
S. Slossberg was appointed by Presiding Judge Suzanne Kingsbury.

Slossberg will be based in Placerville but will serve in all of the courts in El Dorado County. He will specialize in cases involving family law, child support, domestic violence and civil harassment, juvenile dependency and delinquency, traffic, limited civil cases, as well as overflow matters as assigned by the Presiding Judge.

He has been very active in the community and has provided free legal representation to low-income clients primarily in family law matters, first at the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice and later at Live Violence Free in South Lake Tahoe.

Slossberg was most recently employed as an attorney with the Judicial Council of California in support of the AB 1058 Child Support Program, where, among other tasks, he coordinated the program’s statewide child support training conference, including leading its transition to an entirely virtual conference due to the health crisis. Prior to this employment, Mr. Slossberg served the El Dorado Superior Court as the Family Law Facilitator and Self-Help Attorney and also served as a temporary judge handling traffic and small claims matters.

He has worked with survivors of domestic and sexual violence, on tax law as applied to child support calculations, and on updates to child support case law, and presented to other law professionals working with the. Slossberg was also a volunteer law instructor at People’s College of Law, teaching courses on corporations, professional responsibility, community property, and philosophy of the law.

He previously served as a board member on the Hollywood United and East Hollywood Neighborhood Councils, the Legal Aid Association of California, and the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles, where he led the drafting of the organization’s founding charter. He is the committee chair of his son’s cub scout pack and interviews applicants to Harvard College as part of the Harvard Club of Sacramento’s Alumni Interviewing Panel. In law school, Slossberg coordinated spring break trips to Haiti, Guatemala, and Cuba to provide assistance to legal services organizations there. In 2015, he was honored with an Award of Merit from the California Commission on Access to Justice and the Legal Aid Association of California.

Mr. Slossberg received his Juris Doctorate from Harvard School of Law, where he
received the Gary Bellow Public Service Award. He went on to receive a master’s degree in elementary education from Loyola Marymount University and also has a bachelor’s in psychology and a master’s in political science from the University of Florida, where he was a Valedictorian for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and honored as the Most Outstanding Male Leader of the 1998 Graduating Class.

The new commissioner began his commissioner duties on November 9, 2020. Court
commissioners are subordinate judicial officers employed by the Court. They can be
assigned by the Presiding Judge to a variety of calendars including Family Law,
Probate, Traffic and Civil/Small Claims.