About Heidi Tuffias

Heidi S. Tuffias graduated from the University of California, Davis in 1987 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Contemporary history. In 1990 she graduated from the University of Southern California Law Center, receiving the National Association of Women Lawyers’ Outstanding Woman Law Student Award, and immediately began practicing family law with an emphasis on mediation. In 1995, Ms. Tuffias became a Certified Family Law Specialist. Please click here to see her Curriculum Vitae.

Ms. Tuffias has been a member of the Boards of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists, the Family Law Executive Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and is past President of the Board of Directors and current Board Member for the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law. Ms. Tuffias takes very seriously her commitment to give back to the community that has given her so much. She has been a volunteer attorney for Public Counsel Children’s Rights Project, the Los Angeles County Bar Juvenile Justice Program, the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Jail Project. Ms. Tuffias currently volunteers for the Los Angeles Superior Court as a Daily Settlement Officer and was honored by the Los Angeles Superior Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Program in 2008 and 2011. Ms. Tuffias was the chair of the Family Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar’s 2013 Child Custody Colloquium and had her own column for many years in the Association of Certified Family Law Specialist’s Quarterly Newsletter called “the Human Side of Family Law Practice.”

To expand her abilities to serve her clients, Ms. Tuffias received her Masters degree in Clinical Psychology at Antioch University in Los Angeles and focused on the psychology of dispute resolution. Ms. Tuffias is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT) and is working towards getting her MFT license.