Judge Tanya Acker Biography

Tanya Acker is an American civil litigator and a frequent television commentator. She serves as one of three judges on CBS Television Distribution’s syndicated court show HOT BENCH, created by Judge Judy Sheindlin. She is also a youth empowerment advocate.

Tanya serves on the boards of Public Counsel, the nation’s largest provider of free legal services; the Western Justice Center, which promotes alternative dispute resolutions and also (WLACC). She is also on the Pacific Battleship Center, which operates the Battleship USS Iowa Museum; and Rainbow Services, which provides shelter services to victims of domestic violence.

Judge Acker is an experienced civil litigator. Judge Acker has represented a wide array of clients, from major automobile manufacturers in high stakes product liability litigation to media companies in hotly contested trade secret disputes.

Tanya Acker Education

In 1992, Acker received her B.A. degree at Howard University, where she then graduated summa cum laude and was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She was also awarded a Luard Scholarship for study at St. Anne’s College at Oxford University.

Acker served there as the co-editor-in-chief of the Oxford University Women’s Magazine. Acker was also awarded an Earl Warren Scholarship by the NAACP and a Coker Fellowship by the Yale faculty at Yale Law School.

She graduated from Yale Law School in 1995. At Yale Law School, she represented low-income women in family law cases and served as a teaching assistant in Constitutional Law and Civil Procedure courses. During her time at law school, Acker worked at the Office of White House Counsel, the Civil Rights Division in the United States Department of Justice and also the private law firms O’Melveny & Myers, Irell & Manella, and Williams & Connolly.

She assisted President Clinton’s personal lawyers with press interviews, worked on the preparation of Congressional testimony for pending product liability legislation and researched First Amendment issues at Williams & Connolly.

Judge Tanya Acker Career

After law school, she served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Dorothy Wright Nelson on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Tanya’s duties included advising and making recommendations to Ninth Circuit judges about rulings on a broad variety of cases and preparing Judge Nelson for oral arguments on matters before the Court.

After her work as a clerk, she was awarded a Bristow Fellowship by the Office of the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice. While at Bristow Fellow, she drafted Supreme Court briefs on cases including Clinton v. Jones. There, she assisted the Solicitor General in preparing for oral argument before the High Court.

Acker got into private practice and her legal work spanned a broad variety of matters from civil litigation involving public and private entities, to various constitutional cases, to providing business counseling and advice.

Judge Acker also maintained a commitment to pro bono work. She received the ACLU’s First Amendment Award for her successful representation of the homeless in a case against the City of Santa Barbara.

Judge Acker worked in entertainment industry outreach for the Kerry/Edwards presidential campaign in California. She also worked as Deputy Campaign Manager for the Los Angeles mayoral campaign of City Councilman Bernard C. Parks. She then worked as the General Counsel of a company that manufactured emissions control products each after that.

Tanya Acker Age

Judge Tanya is 50 years old as of 2020, she was born on 13 March 1970 in Los Angeles, USA. Acker celebrates her birthday on 13th March every year.

Tanya Acker Family

Acker was born to her father Bill Acker and mother Aretha Acker. Her parents were post office workers and they raised her in Fernando Valley, Lake View Terrace in Los Angeles. Acker loves sharing her parents’ photos on her social media pages and also her cute dogs Max and Isis. After doing our research, it is not known if she has any siblings.

Judge Tanya Acker Husband

Judge Acker is married and lives with her husband in their Beverly Hills rental home. Acker keeps her personal life very private, apart from her wearing a wedding ring on her wedding ring finger, nothing is known about her marriage. In a past interview, she has shared that Judge Dorothy Nelson officiated at her wedding.

Tanya Acker Salary

Judge Tanya Acker receives a salary of $50 thousand for a single episode of Hot Bench.

Tanya Acker Net Worth

Acker’s net worth is estimated to be between 500 thousand and $1 million dollars as of 2020. This includes her Assets, Money and Income. Her primary source of income is her career as a Television Personality. Through her various sources of income, Tanya has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

Tanya Acker Podcast

Judge Acker hosts her podcast The Tanya Acker Show which is about recognizing that we’re bigger than our problems. It is also about looking at truth; fighting better and smarter with each other; brainstorming ideas; knowing that bad things are fixable, and having more fun.

Acker and her guests explore a wide range of topics – from fighting frivolous lawsuits to then ensuring meaningful criminal justice reform to breaking bread with political opponents without breaking glass in each other’s faces.

Her early guests included Anthony Daniels, Alabama House Minority leader (and the first African-American to hold the job); Lecia Brooks, historical consultant on BlacKKKlansman and expert on voting rights; Lawyers Paul Derby, Michael Trope on fighting frivolous lawsuits and former prosecutor David Kettel on crying wolf to the police.

Tanya Acker Commentary

Acker is also an experienced television commentator. Judge Acker has been a featured guest on “Good Morning America,” “Entertainment Tonight,” “Wendy Williams,” “The Talk, ” “Inside Edition,” “The O’Reilly Factor,” “Larry King Live,” “CNN Reports,” “Anderson Cooper 360,” “Extra,” “Your World With Neil Cavuto,” “The Insider,”  “CNBC Reports,” Great Britain’s “GMTV,” Sky News, and various other broadcasts.

She has also guest co-hosted CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” and contributes to the Huffington Post. Acker has served as a temporary judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court Temporary Judge Program.

Tanya Acker Hot Bench

The nontraditional panel-based court show Hot Bench is created by Judge Judy Sheindlin and executive produced by David Theodosopoulos. The three-judge panel comprises of Patricia DiMango, Tanya Acker and Michael Corriero. The show’s executive producers are Amy Freisleben, Belinda Jackson and James Glover. The Hot Bench is produced by Big Ticket Pictures and Queen Bee Productions. It is then distributed by CBS Television Distribution.

Tania Torres Career

When she was a teenager, Tania worked as an assistance animal trainer in the film industry by exotic animals from a young age. Tania has been to different places such as the jungles of Costa Rica and the Mongolian desert with a pack of wolves. Later on, Tania had a very active role at the ranch, administering canine medication to hundreds of digs at Villalobos.

Tania Torres and Tia Torres

Tania was born on June 11th, 1960 in Southern California, in the United States which makes her nationality an American. She never knew about her biological parents, she grew up with her stepmom who took care of her.

From childhood, Tia developed a fondness for animals especially dogs and cats. As a matter of fact, she would often adopt stray animals in her neighborhood. Tia left her home quite early at the age of 17 and decided to help people and animals in her life.

Tia initially linked up with the army to meet her motives however she left it after a while. After coming back from the army Tia adopted a Pitbull dog which became an integral part of her life. Then she founded Villalobos Rescue Center where she carried out the pit bull rescue services which also included medical service, training, and seminars for the pitbull dog owners.

Later she also starred in the reality TV show Pit Bulls & Parolees that aired on Animal Planet in the year 2009. Her Pitbull rescue foundation relocated to New Orleans, Lousiana.

Tania Torres Pitbulls and Parolees

Pitbulls and parolees is a series that airs on Animal Planet. This American reality TV series was first aired on 30th, October 2009. The series features the largest pit bull animal shelter in the United States, Villalobos Rescue Center. Pit Bulls an

d Parolees describes the daily day activities at the Villalobos Rescue Center that includes the rescue of neglected, abused, and abandoned dogs and the efforts of the center to put dogs for adoption to new owners. Tania and her mom are parts of this TV series.

This reality TV series helps pay part of the monthly bills of Villalobos. The expenses of the rescue center increased manifold after Tia Torres moved the rescue group, her family, parolees, and all the dogs to new Orleans.

The main focus of this reality TV series is the interaction between Tia, her family workers, volunteers, and her dogs in the course of the day to daycare and training duties and the rescue missions of pit bulls.