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U.S. District Court in California
U.S. District Judges for California, 1866-86(may beincomplete!)
OgdenHoffman, Jr. 1866-86
U.S. District Judges for the Central District of California,1966-2017(may be incomplete!)
ThurmondClarke 1966-70ElishaAvery Crary 1966-75WilliamPercival Gray 1966-82PeirsonM. Hall 1966-68IrvingHill 1966-80AlbertLee Stephens, Jr. 1966-79LeonRene Yankwich 1966-75WarrenJohn Ferguson 1966-79RobertJoseph Kelleher 1970-83MalcolmM. Lucas 1971-84WilliamM. Byrne, Jr. 1971-98LawrenceTupper Lydick 1971-84RobertFirth 1974-79RobertMitsuhiro Takasugi 1976-96MarianaR. Pfaelzer 1978-97TerryJ. Hatter, Jr. 1979-2005A.Wallace Tashima 1980-96DavidVreeland Kenyon 1980-95ConsueloBland Marshall 1980-2005CynthiaHolcomb Hall 1981-84RichardArthur Gadbois, Jr. 1982-96EdwardRafeedie 1982-96PamelaAnn Rymer 1983-89HarryLindley Hupp 1984-97AlicemarieHuber Stotler 1984-2009WilliamJ. Rea 1984-98J.Spencer Letts 1985-2000JohnG. Davies 1986-98RobertC. Bonner 1989-90LourdesG. Baird 1992-2004LindaHodge McLaughlin 1992-99AudreyB. Collins 1994-2014RobertJ. Timlin 1994-2005KimMcLane Wardlaw 1995-98ChristinaA. Snyder 1997-2016CarlosR. Moreno 1998-2001MargaretM. Morrow 1998-2015A.Howard Matz 1998-2011DavidO. Carter 1998-NoraM. Manella 1998-2006Florence-MarieCooper 1999-2010PercyAnderson 2002-JohnF. Walter 2002-JamesV. Selna 2003-CormacJ. Carney 2003-GeorgeP. Schiavelli 2004-08JosephineL. Staton 2010-JesusGilberto Bernal 2012-AndreBirotte, Jr. 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of California,1966-2017(may be incomplete!)
MyronDonovan Crocker 1966-81SherrillHalbert 1966-69ThomasJ. MacBride 1966-79LawrenceK. Karlton 1979-2000MiltonLewis Schwartz 1979-90EdwardDean Price 1979-89RaulAnthony Ramirez 1980-89RobertEverett Coyle 1982-96DavidF. Levi 1990-2007WilliamB. Shubb 1990-2004OliverWinston Wanger 1991-2006GarlandEllis Burrell, Jr. 1992-FrankC. Damrell, Jr. 1997-2008MorrisonC. England, Jr. 2002-JohnA. Mendez 2008-KimberlyJo Mueller 2010-DaleAlan Drozd 2015-
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U.S. District Judges for the Northern District of California,1851-2017(may be incomplete!)
OgdenHoffman, Jr. 1851-66OgdenHoffman, Jr. 1886-91WilliamW. Morrow 1891-97JohnJ. DeHaven 1897-1903JohnSlater Partridge 1923-26FrankHenry Kerrigan 1924-35AdolphusFrederic St. Sure 1925-47HaroldLouderback 1928-41MichaelJoseph Roche 1935-58MartinI. Welsh 1939-47LouisE. Goodman 1942-61DalMillington Lemmon 1947-54OliverCarter 1950EdwardPreston Murphy 1950-58OliverDeveta Hamlin, Jr. 1953-58SherrillHalbert 1954-66AlbertCharles Wollenberg 1958-75LloydH. Burke 1958-79WilliamThomas Sweigert 1959-73ThomasJ. MacBride 1961-66StanleyWeigel 1962-97RobertFrancis Peckham 1966-88GeraldSanford Levin 1969-71RobertH. Schnacke 1970-83SamuelConti 1970-87SpencerMortimer Williams 1971-87WilliamAustin Ingram 1976-90WilliamW Schwarzer 1976-91RobertP. Aguilar 1980-96TheltonEugene Henderson 1980-98FernM. Smith 1988-2003VaughnR. Walker 1989-2011SaundraBrown Armstrong 1991-BarbaraA. Caulfield 1991-94MaxineM. Chesney 1995-2009CharlesR. Breyer 1997-WilliamHaskell Alsup 1999-PhyllisJean Hamilton 2000-JeffreySteven White 2002-RichardG. Seeborg 2010-EdwardJohn Davila 2011-EdwardM. Chen 2011-JamesDonato 2014-VinceGirdhari Chhabria 2014-
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U.S. District Judges for the Southern District of California,1850-2017(may be incomplete!)
JamesMcHall Jones 1850-51OgdenHoffman, Jr. 1852-54FletcherMathews Haight 1861-66ErskineMayo Ross 1887-95BenjaminF. Bledsoe 1914-25OscarA. Trippet 1915-23WilliamP. James 1923PaulJohn McCormick 1924-51GeorgeCosgrave 1930-40HarryAaron Hollzer 1931-46AlbertLee Stephens, Sr. 1935-37LeonRene Yankwich 1935-64RalphE. Jenney 1937-45CampbellE. Beaumont 1939-54BenjaminHarrison 1940JamesFrancis Thaddeus O'Connor 1940-49PeirsonM. Hall 1942-66WilliamCarey Mathes 1945-65JacobWeinberger 1946-58JamesM. Carter 1949-67WilliamM. Byrne, Sr. 1950-66ThurmondClarke 1955-66FredKunzel 1959-69MyronDonovan Crocker 1959-66AlbertLee Stephens, Jr. 1961-66ElishaAvery Crary 1962-66IrvingHill 1965-66ManuelL. Real 1966-90WilliamPercival Gray 1966EdwardJoseph Schwartz 1968-82DavidW. Williams 1969-81HowardBoyd Turrentine 1970-84GordonThompson, Jr. 1970-94JohnClifford Wallace 1970-72LelandChris Nielsen 1971-85JudithNelsen Keep 1980-2004EarlBen Gilliam 1980-93RudiM. Brewster 1984-98JohnSkylstead Rhoades, Sr. 1985-95NapoleonA. Jones, Jr. 1994-2007BarryTed Moskowitz 1995-JeffreyT. Miller 1997-2010ThomasJ. Whelan 1998-2010LarryAlan Burns 2003-DanaMakoto Sabraw 2003-WilliamQ. Hayes 2003-RogerT. Benitez 2004-JanisLynn Sammartino 2007-MichaelM. Anello 2008-AnthonyJoseph Battaglia 2011-CathyAnn Bencivengo 2012-GonzaloPaul Curiel 2012-CynthiaAnn Bashant 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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