Lise Pearlman

Author and Ret. Judge

Lise Pearlman is a retired judge, filmmaker, award-winning historian and best-selling author.
Judge Pearlman was an undergraduate in the first class that included women at Yale University and later on attended Berkeley Law School. She clerked for California Chief Justice Donald White before practicing law in Oakland, California. Judge Pearlman served as the first Presiding Judge of the California State Bar Court and later chaired Oakland’s Public Ethics Commission. Judge Pearlman has wrote multiple award-winning books, including her Excellence Award Winner for TRUE CRIME & Amazon Best-Seller, The Lindbergh Kidnapping Suspect No. 1: The Man Who Got Away.