Sara Craig is Of Counsel at Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise LLP in San Francisco, where her practice centers on representing survivors in sexual assault and abuse litigation, together with mass tort and products liability matters. She has served on the Queen's Bench Board of Directors since 2018.

Earlier in her career, she litigated in coordinated proceedings, including multidistrict litigation and California JCCPs.

She earned her J.D. from UC College of the Law, San Francisco, where she served as executive articles editor of the Hastings Journal on Gender & the Law, and her B.S. in neurobiology, physiology and behavior from UC Davis.

Honors: Northern California Super Lawyers (2025–2026).

Catherine Reagan is an associate at Trucker Huss, APC in San Francisco, where she represents plan sponsors, trustees, and fiduciaries in ERISA litigation, including 401(k) class actions and benefit-claim disputes.

Her practice also includes counseling employers on executive compensation and guiding clients through Department of Labor investigations.

She earned her J.D. from UC Davis School of Law, where she received the Order of the Barristers award and multiple Witkin Awards, and her B.A., a joint degree in economics and political science, from UC San Diego.

Honors: Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Star (2022–present); Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch; Queen's Bench Rookie Award (2021).

Alexandra Sepolen is an associate attorney at Stross Wess Cutcher & Levin LLP in San Mateo, where she advises executives and their spouses and partners in high-net-worth dissolutions and parentage cases involving complex financial and international issues. Her practice includes cross-jurisdiction custody disputes, special needs custody matters, domestic violence litigation involving minors, and disputes involving executive compensation, private equity, and angel investments.

Earlier in her career, Alexandra practiced family law at another Bay Area firm serving high-net-worth clients. Alexandra transitioned into her legal career after she built an established, interdisciplinary career in public health focused on family systems, health equity, prevention of gender-based violence, and the intersection between law and public health.

Alexandra earned her J.D. with Honors in Intellectual Property from Santa Clara University School of Law, where she chaired the Trial Team, Galloway Moot Court, and Honors Moot Court programs. She received her M.P.H. from Columbia University and was an Incarceration and Public Health Action Network Fellow. She received her A.B., cum laude, from Brown University as a QuestBridge Scholar. She is also an alumna of the American Legion Auxiliary's California Girls State program.

Honors: Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Star (2025–2026); Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (2026–2027); Minority Bar Coalition Unity Award (2025); Queen's Bench Rookie Award (2022); American Law Institute Leadership & Scholarship Award (2021).

Juliane Smith is the founding attorney of Wordsmith Law in San Francisco, where her practice spans business and commercial litigation and transactions, personal injury and property damage matters, and real estate disputes. Since 2025, she has served on the State Bar of California's Committee of Bar Examiners, to which she was appointed by the Supreme Court of California.

Earlier in her career, she interned with the Virginia Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

She earned her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and her B.A. in government and international politics, summa cum laude, from George Mason University.

Honors: Appointed to the State Bar of California's Committee of Bar Examiners (2025–2029).

Veena Bansal is an associate at Berliner Cohen LLP in San Jose, where she handles complex civil litigation, including business disputes, commercial and contractual matters, and probate and trust litigation.

She began her career as a staff attorney at a San Francisco housing nonprofit, defending low-income tenants against eviction, and practiced at a global full-service firm before joining Berliner Cohen.

She earned her J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A. in psychology and political science, cum laude, from UC Davis. She speaks Spanish and Hindi.

Honors: Queen's Bench Rookie Award (2025).

My Kim Ong is an associate at Jackson Lewis, PC in San Francisco. She has counseled employers and plan fiduciaries on employee benefits under ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, the Affordable Care Act, HIPAA, and COBRA, including plan design, drafting, and administrative implementation, fiduciary governance, and benefit claims and appeals.

She has worked exclusively in this practice area since her tenure as a summer associate specializing in ERISA matters in 2023. She also speaks Vietnamese.

She earned her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she was a Dean's Merit Scholar, Technical Editor of the USF Law Review, and Advocate of the Year in the school's 2022 Intramural Advanced Moot Court Competition, and her B.S., cum laude, from Arizona State University.

Elisha Jussen Cooke is an attorney at the Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic in San Francisco, where her practice centers on representing survivors of domestic violence in family law matters.

Her training spans tribal, prosecutorial, and county practice: she appeared before the Tulalip Tribal Court, externed in the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Special Assault Unit, clerked in the Alameda County District Attorney's Domestic Violence Unit, and conducted research on gender-based violence as a fellow at Haramaya University in Ethiopia.

Born in Santa Cruz and raised in Truckee, she earned her J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law and her B.A., with departmental honors, from the University of Washington, and was admitted to the California Bar in 2012.

Honors: Queen's Bench Service Award (2021).

Eliza Rodrigues is a corporate counsel whose in-house practice spans business, health care, and government and administrative law.

Across more than three decades in the profession, she served as the 2012–2013 President of California Women Lawyers, where she created CWL's In-House Counsel Network, and as Treasurer and inaugural Strategic Planning Committee Chair of IANGEL, the International Action Network for Gender Equity & Law.

She earned her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Honors: Queen's Bench Service Award (2007).

Angel Garrett is a shareholder at Littler Mendelson P.C. in San Francisco, where she represents employers, from Fortune 500 companies to family-owned businesses and nonprofits, in ERISA and employee benefits litigation, including fiduciary-breach and benefits class actions. She serves on the board of the Justice & Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco and as Vice President of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area.

She joined Littler in 2025 from Trucker Huss, APC.

She earned her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Illinois College of Law and her B.S. and B.A. from UC Berkeley, where she was a Regents' and Chancellor's Scholar.

Honors: The Best Lawyers in America, ERISA Litigation (2025–2026); Northern California Super Lawyers (2019–present); Minority Bar Coalition Unity Award (2021).

Beverly Brand is Assistant Chief Counsel at the California Department of Insurance, where she reviews complex life and disability insurance policy forms in the Policy Approval Bureau and interprets insurance legislation and regulations for the public, the industry, and legislators. She serves as California Women Lawyers' District 4 Governor, representing Marin and San Francisco counties.

Her earlier career included counsel roles at Doctor Law Group and Fireman's Fund Insurance and practice as a litigation associate.

Her academic background includes George Washington University and UC Hastings College of the Law.

Honors: Queen's Bench Service Award (2017).

Lacey Estudillo is an appellate attorney at Horvitz & Levy LLP, an appellate specialty firm, in San Francisco.

She first joined the firm through its Appellate Fellowship Program, then served as a law clerk to Judge André Birotte, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and to Judge Carlos Bea of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before returning to the firm.

She graduated magna cum laude from Pepperdine University School of Law, where she was Managing Editor of the Pepperdine Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif.

Honors: Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Star, Appellate (2023–2026).

Kaelyn Romey is a Visiting Law Professor in Tax at both UC Law San Francisco and the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she also teaches trial advocacy and evidence. She has held leadership roles in the State Bar of California's Taxation Section, the American Bar Association, and the Association of American Law Schools.

She previously served as Senior Counsel in the San Francisco office of the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, trying cases in the United States Tax Court, and as Litigation Center Director at Golden Gate University School of Law.

She earned her J.D. and LL.M. in Taxation from the University of San Diego School of Law and her B.A. from UC Santa Barbara.

Honors: Queen's Bench Rookie Award (2019); NITA Master Advocate; Bar Association of San Francisco Barrister of the Year (2011) and Public Service Award (2013–2015).

Linda Anderson is a partner at Flicker Kerin LLP and a Certified Family Law Specialist, certified by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization, handling divorce, custody and visitation, child and spousal support, and complex, high-asset property characterization and division matters. She volunteers as an attorney with the Alameda County Bar Association.

During law school, she clerked for the Sacramento County and Santa Clara County District Attorney's Offices.

She earned her J.D. from Cornell Law School with a concentration in advocacy, where she was Managing Editor of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, and her B.A. from Cornell University.

Honors: Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Star (2019–present); Queen's Bench Rookie Award (2024).