JUDGE ISABELLA HORTON GRANT (Ret.)

ADR EXPERIENCE & SPECIALTIES

Since her retirement from the San Francisco Superior Court in 1997, Judge Grant has been very actively engaged in ADR. She has conducted hundreds of mediations and settlement conferences.
Judge Grant has particular expertise in the areas of probate matters, including estate and trust litigation, conservatorships and guardianships, elder abuse and family law matters. She also handled civil litigation in both Municipal and Superior Courts, including but not limited to matters dealing with employment, discrimination, real estate, unfair business practices, sexual harassment and landlord/tenant disputes.

She is well known and respected by her peers and both sides of the bar, for her excellent settlement technique and highly developed “people skills”. She “reads” the litigants well and applies her vast knowledge and experience to the case at hand, enabling her to get to the “heart of the matter”.

ON THE BENCH

Judge Grant served as a San Francisco Superior Court Judge from 1982-1997, and Judge of the Municipal Court, 1979-1982. She was assigned as a Justice pro tem, First District Court of Appeal in 1981.

MEMBERSHIPS & SPECIAL HONORS

  • In 2000, the National College of Probate Judges awarded the “Treat Award” to Judge Grant for her considerable contribution and her outstanding performance as a probate judge. Faculty/lecturer for various programs on probate litigation and family law sponsored by The Rutter Group and CJER.
  • Adjunct Professor, Hastings, College of the Law – San Francisco, Community Property, Family Law, 1971-1979
  • Contributing editor, CALIFORNIA PRACTICE GUIDE – PROBATE, The Rutter Group; MARITAL CONTRACTS BEFORE AND DURING MARRIAGE, CEB Family Law, 1963.
  • San Francisco Bar Assoc. (Past Director: Panelist on Elder Abuse); Assoc. of Family and Conciliation Courts (Calif. Chapter, Past Pres.); Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (Northern Calif. Chapter, Past Pres.); American Bar Association Sections on Real Property and Probate, Family Law, Judicial Administration and Alternate Disputes; California Judges Assoc. (Family Law Committee, Past Chair.); National College of Probate Judges (Speaker; Conservatorships; Guardianships; and The Courts and Mental Health); among others.

EDUCATION

  • Molloy College, Honorary Doctor of Laws, LLD
  • Columbia University Law School, New York
  • University of California at Los Angeles, (M.A., Economics)
  • Swarthmore College – High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa (B.A., History)
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