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Appellate Judge Jennifer Malkowski

• Location: Oakland, CA
• Joined: October 2005
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• 23 small claims

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Jennifer Malkowski grew up in Chicago and spent her childhood watching movies, going to Disneyworld, and canoeing the rivers of Indiana. One of her earliest film memories is seeing The Godfather at age seven. She remembers her little sister asking, in a quavering voice, “Daddy, why is there a horsey’s head in that man’s bed?!?” Despite this early trauma, Jennifer became a Cinema Studies major at Oberlin College, earned her Ph.D. in Film and Media at U.C. Berkeley, and is now a postdoc in Film and New Media at Smith College. When she manages to dig herself out from under piles of film theory books, she spends her time going to the movies, playing softball or nerdy board games, and preparing for the inevitable zombie plague.