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James Ware

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Northern District of California

Years in office: 1990 - 2012

Education

Bachelor's

California Lutheran University, 1969

Law

Stanford Law School, 1972

Personal

Birthplace

Birmingham, AL

James Ware was thechief judge for theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of California. He joined the court in 1990 after being nominated by PresidentGeorge H.W. Bush. He assumed the post of chief judge on January 1, 2011. He retired from this position on August 31, 2012.^[1]

Early life and education

Ware graduated from California Lutheran University with his bachelor's degree in 1969 and later graduated from Stanford Law School with his juris doctorate in 1972. Ware was a U.S. Army Reserve Second Lieutenant in 1972 and also served in the U.S. Army as a Military Police Officer in 1973. Ware also served as a U.S. Army Reserve Captain in the Military Police from 1973 to 1986.^[2]

Professional career

Ware was in private practice licensed in the State ofCalifornia from 1972 to 1988 before becoming a superior court judge in theSanta Clara County Superior Court from 1988 to 1990.^[2]

Judicial nominations and appointments

Northern District of California

On the recommendation of U.S. Senator Pete Wilson, Ware was nominated by PresidentGeorge H.W. Bush on August 3, 1990 to a seat vacated byRobert Peckham as Peckham assumed senior status. Ware was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 28, 1990 on unanimous consent and received commission onOctober 1, 1990.^[3][2] He became thechief judge of the district when former Chief JudgeVaughn Walker stepped down on January 1, 2011.^[4] He retired from this position on August 31, 2012.

See also

• United States District Court for the Northern District of California
• News: Facebook privacy suit decided in favor of the company
• News: Federal 9th Circuit judges uphold overturning of California Proposition 8,February 7, 2012

External links

• Judge Ware's Standing Orders
• Judge Ware's Biography at theFederal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of California
Active judges	Chief Judge: Richard Seeborg  •  Beth Labson Freeman  •  Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers  •  Trina Thompson  •  Jon S. Tigar  •  Jacqueline Scott Corley  •  James Donato  •  Vince Girdhari Chhabria  •  Haywood Stirling Gilliam, Jr.  •  Noël Wise  •  Rita Lin  •  Eumi Lee  •  Araceli Martínez-Olguín  •  P. Casey Pitts
Senior judges	Thelton Henderson  •  William Alsup (California)  •  Saundra Armstrong  •  Charles Breyer  •  Maxine Chesney  •  Phyllis Hamilton  •  Susan Illston  •  Claudia Wilken  •  Edward Chen  •  Jeffrey White  •  Edward J. Davila  •  William Orrick III  •
Magistrate judges	Kandis Westmore  •  Laurel Beeler  •  Nathanael Cousins  •  Donna Ryu  •  Sallie Kim  •  Susan van Keulen  •  Thomas Hixson  •  Alex Tse  •  Robert Illman  •  Virginia DeMarchi  •
Former Article III judges	Dal Lemmon  •  Oliver Hamlin  •  Cecil Poole  •  Ogden Hoffman  •  William Morrow  •  John Jefferson DeHaven  •  William Cary Van Fleet  •  Maurice Timothy Dooling  •  John Slater Partridge  •  Vaughn Walker  •  Jeremy Fogel  •  Marilyn Patel  •  James Ware  •  Ronald Whyte  •  Frank Henry Kerrigan  •  Harold Louderback  •  Adolphus Frederic St. Sure  •  Michael Roche (California)  •  Sherrill Halbert  •  Thomas MacBride  •  Martin Welsh  •  Robert Aguilar (California federal judge)  •  Oliver Carter  •  Barbara Caulfield  •  Herbert Erskine  •  Monroe Friedman  •  Louis Goodman  •  George Harris (California)  •  William Ingram (California)  •  Charles Legge  •  Gerald Levin  •  Eugene Lynch  •  William Orrick Jr.  •  Robert Peckham  •  Charles Renfrew  •  Robert Schnacke  •  Fern Smith (California)  •  William Sweigert  •  John Vukasin  •  Stanley Weigel  •  Spencer Williams  •  Delwen Jensen  •  Samuel Conti  •  Patrica Trumbull  •  Albert Wollenberg  •  Alfonso Zirpoli  •  Lloyd Burke  •  Martin J. Jenkins  •  Lucy H. Koh (California)  •
Former Chief judges	Vaughn Walker  •  Thelton Henderson  •  Phyllis Hamilton  •  Marilyn Patel  •  James Ware  •  Michael Roche (California)  •  Oliver Carter  •  Louis Goodman  •  George Harris (California)  •  William Ingram (California)  •  Robert Peckham  •

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