Cristina Pérez (judge)
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Cristina Pérez is an American judge who had a television show in Telemundo USA. She was born in New York City, received her BA at UCLA and her JD at Whittier Law School[1]. Her show, "Corte de Familia" ("Family Court"), was on Telemundo.
She currently hosts the daytime syndicated English-language court show, "Cristina's Court", which is filmed at KRIV, the FOX owned-and-operated station in Houston. This makes Perez one of three Latina judges presiding over an English-language American TV judge show, along with Judge Maria Lopez and The People's Court's Judge Marilyn Milian.
Pérez is the first Hispanic judge to cross over from Spanish-language to English-language television. She revealed that her ancestry is Colombian, rather than Mexican or Cuban, as had been thought by some of her viewers, in a 2004 magazine interview.
In September 2006 Perez's book "Living by Los Dichos: Advice from a Mother to a Daughter" was published.
Perez participates in a weekly radio segment called "Sex In the News" on the Playboy Radio Network, which is broadcast on Sirius satellite radio.
