KATHERINE KMIEC TURNER
Associate
Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton LLP1000 Town Center Drive
Sixth Floor
Oxnard, California 93036
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Email kturner@nchc.com
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Professional Experience
Ms. Turner practices business and corporate law and civil litigation. Prior to pursuing her legal education, Ms. Turner spent several years with J.D. Power and Associates in Westlake Village, California, where she worked on protection of the corporation’s intellectual property and supervised a multi-million advertising claim and name use program.
Community
Ms. Turner has volunteered for the Red Cross, working to coordinate blood drives for the organization. She participates in “ArtsReach,” a fine arts outreach program for grade school children, and volunteers for The Painted Turtle Camp, a summer camp for seriously ill children.
Education
A graduate of the Pepperdine University School of Law, Ms. Turner also holds a Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution from the top-ranked Straus Institute. She served as literary editor for the administrative law journal and president of The Federalist Society and is a Blackstone Fellow.
Ms. Turner has authored or co-authored several articles dealing with U.S. Supreme Court developments in land use and development as well as the judicial review of regulatory decision-making: Turner, Katherine Kmiec, No More Secrets: Under Ballard v. Comm’r, Special Trial Judge Reports Must be Revealed, 26 National Ass’n Of Administrative Law Judges Journal 247 (2006); Kmiec, Douglas W. & Katherine Kmiec Turner, Is Private Economic Development Condemnation an Abuse of the "Despotic Power"?, Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas., Feb. 22, 2005, at 274; and Kmiec, Douglas W. & Katherine Kmiec Turner, Property Lost: The Takings Clause in the 2004 Term, Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas., Aug. 15, 2005, at 471.
Personal
Born in South Bend, Indiana, Ms. Turner was raised on a farm in nearby Michigan and lived for several years with her parents and four siblings in Washington D.C., where her father served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel for Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush, before she moved to Malibu in 1995. Ms. Turner currently resides in Agoura Hills with her husband, Robert.