The Hon. Philip A. Pimentel is a commissioner for the Tuolumne County Superior Court in California.
Pimentel earned a bachelor’s degree in social welfare and criminal justice from Uppsala University in 1979. He then completed a J.D. at Santa Clara University School of Law in 1983. He is admitted to practice in California (1984) and the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (1984).
After graduating from law school, Pimentel began his legal career as a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Santa Clara County. He served in that capacity until 1985, at which time he became an associate at Trimbur Davis & Clark. Then, in 1992, he opened his own private practice as a sole practitioner in Modesto.