Starla Anderson, MA, JD, LLM

Starla Anderson, MA, JD, LLM has professional experience as a trial consultant for a national company that handled large cases such as John DuPont’s criminal trial, ARCO and Norplant litigation. Anderson also has litigation experience as a general practitioner and as a prosecutor for the County of San Bernardino. She completed a post-doctoral specialty Master of Laws (LL.M.), at Pepperdine University’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution in 2012.

With a passion for students and for mending broken situations, it is her desire to help students understand the complexities of the law and the field of conflict resolution in a way that prepares them for their future professional and personal endeavors. Her research is centered on the creative use of art to equip students to understand their past and feel confident they have the tools to navigate future challenges in a God-honoring way. She is a proponent of utilizing restorative justice principles in systems designs for organizations and churches. Recent work involved designing and leading a process to accommodate diverse perspectives regarding a church name change utilizing open communication to help guide a 4000 member congregation to a unifying resolution.