Diana Richmond is a family law and mediation practitioner with the firm of Sideman & Bancroft, L.L.P. in San Francisco, California. She is a Certified Family Law Specialist who has been among those selected in each edition of Best Lawyers in America from 1983 forward. Ms. Richmond served as president of the Northern California Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers in 1988-1989, and served on the Academy's national Board of Governors from 1991-1994. She was chair of the California State Bar's Family Law Section in 1984-1985. Ms. Richmond graduated from Golden Gate University School of Law with highest honors in 1973, and was named ''outstanding alumna'' of the law school in 1985 and of the university in 1990. She is currently vice-chair of the university's Board of Trustees.
Diana Richmond is an Editorial Consultant to and author of Chapter 3, California Domestic Partner Rights and Responsibilities Act, in California Family Law Practice and Procedure, Second Edition, and an Editorial Consultant to Matthew Bender's California Family Law Monthly. In In Re Marriage Cases, she submitted an amicus brief for American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Northern California Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and California District of the American Academy of Pediatrics on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.