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Randy Linda Sturman earned her law degree from the University of Florida and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego. She interrned at the United States Supereme Court on the staff of the Chief Justice. She also interned at the United States House of Representatives on the staff of Congressman William Lehman and was an Assistant District Attorney under Janet Reno in Dade County, Florida. She has been teaching on the faculty of the Judaic Studies Program and the Department of Anthropology at UCSD since 1999 and has been Adjunct Professor at California Western School of Law since 2003. Prior to that she was a trial lawyer in private practice, specializing in medical malpractice.
She is the author of the book Six Lives in Jerusalem, which concerns end-of-life
decisions in Israel. She is currently working on a book, Israel and
the Bible—Then and Now, to be published by Oxford University
Press. She has also authored articles and reviews in law and anthropology
journals and has given over twenty-five lectures and papers at academic
and non-academic institutions in the United States and Canada.
She serves on the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
Veterans Hospital Ethics Committee and on its Community Advisory Board.
She also serves on the Patient Advisory Council of the Moores Cancer Center
at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine and on the
Institute of Health Law Studies at California Western School of Law. In
2000, she was awarded a NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department
of Geropsychiatry at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
Dr. Sturman may be contacted at rsturman@uga.edu
