California Academy of Appellate Lawyers Announces New Member
The California Academy of Appellate Lawyers is pleased to announce that it admitted Nadia Sarkis as a new member at its October 3, 2026 meeting.
Ms. Sarkis is a partner at Miller Barondess, LLP. She received her Juris Doctor from Northwestern School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University. After law school, Ms. Sarkis clerked for Ferdinand F. Fernandez of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and for Chief Justice Mary Mullarky of the Colorado Supreme Court. She is a State Bar of California certified specialist in appellate law.
Founded in 1972, the Academy is the nation’s oldest lawyers’ organization dedicated to appellate practice. Our members are California lawyers with substantial appellate experience, who are elected to membership after rigorous scrutiny of their reputation, character, and appellate advocacy skills. Academy members are frequently counsel of record in the most complex and highest-impact cases before the California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal, and federal appellate courts. More information about the Academy appears on its website at www.CalAppellate.org.