The Honorable Laura L. Krieg
Assistant Presiding Judge
In March of 2020, Judge Laura L. Krieg was elected to fill a vacant judgeship on the Tuolumne County Superior Court bench. She was sworn in on January 4, 2021.
Judge Krieg graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with honors. She received her Juris Doctorate law degree, Cum Laude, from the University of Notre Dame. Following law school, Judge Krieg joined the firm Thelen Reid & Priest in their San Francisco office. While there, she specialized in Commercial Litigation, White Collar Criminal Defense, and Construction law.
Judge Krieg joined the Tuolumne County District Attorney’s Office as a Deputy District Attorney and was later elected to become Tuolumne County’s District Attorney from 2015 through 2020.
Judge Krieg is a sixth generation native to Tuolumne County.