John Jefferson DeHaven

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Northern District of California

Years in office: 1897 - 1913

Education

Law

Read law, 1866

Personal

Birthplace

St. Joseph, MO

John Jefferson DeHaven (1845-1913) was afederal judge on theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of California.

He was nominated by PresidentWilliam McKinley on June 1, 1897. He was confirmed by the Senate onJune 8, 1897, and received commission that same day. He served until his death onJanuary 26, 1913. DeHaven was succeeded in this position byMaurice Timothy Dooling.

Early life and education

• Read law, 1866

Professional career

• Private practice, Eureka, California, 1866-1867
• District attorney, Humboldt County, California, 1867-1869
• California state representative, 1869-1871
• California state senator, 1871-1875
• Private practice, Eureka, California, 1875-1878
• City attorney, Eureka, California, 1878-1880
• Private practice, Eureka, California, 1880-1884
• Judge, Superior Court of California, 1884-1889
• U.S. Representative from California, 1889-1890
• Associate justice, California Supreme Court, 1891-1895
• Private practice, Eureka, California, 1895-1897

Judicial career

Northern District of California

DeHaven was nominated by PresidentWilliam McKinley on June 1, 1897. He was confirmed by the Senate onJune 8, 1897, and received commission that same day. He served until his death onJanuary 26, 1913.^[1] DeHaven was succeeded in this position byMaurice Timothy Dooling.

External links

• Biography from theFederal Judicial Center.
• Biography from theBiographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges nominated byWilliam McKinley
1897	Bradford •DeHaven •McKenna •Morrow •Purnell •Tenney
1898	Ewart •Lowell •Meek •Thomas •Thompson •Waddill
1899	Barnard •Clabaugh •Day •Evans •Fischer •Gray •Grosscup •Hook •Howell •Kohlsaat •McPherson • Shelby
1900	Boyd •De Vries •Hazel •McPherson •Severens •Trieber •Wanty
1901	Adams •Anderson •Archbald •Cochran •Humphrey •Keller •Wing

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  •