Claudia Ann Wilken
Appointed by President William J. Clinton in 1993 and confirmed by voice vote, Claudia Ann Wilken is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She earned a law degree from University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 1975. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓
- Born
- 1949 · age 77
- Appointed by
- William J. Clinton, 1993
- Confirmed
- by voice vote
- Education
- Stanford 1971 · University of California, Berkeley, Law 1975
- Succeeded by
- Haywood Stirling Gilliam Jr.
Federal judicial service
| Year | Court | Appointed by | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Northern District of California | Clinton (D) | Voice vote |
Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.
Confirmation vote
Voice vote
The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.
Education
Judicial Record
Caseload & case types
In our data, Wilken was assigned 5,822 district-court cases (1970–2026). Median time from filing to termination: 232 days across 5,818 closed cases.
Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.
On appeal
Of 279 of Wilken’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 196 were affirmed, 41 reversed or vacated, and 42 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.
In our data, Wilken authored 140 published opinions for the court (1994–2011). Most cited: Good v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America (135 citations).
A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.
Recent & notable rulings
| Year | Case | Citation | Cited |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Good v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America | 5 F. Supp. 2d 804 | 135 |
| 2010 | Muniz v. United Parcel Service, Inc. | 731 F. Supp. 2d 961 | 71 |
| 2002 | Clement v. California Department of Corrections | 220 F. Supp. 2d 1098 | 71 |
| 2004 | Doe v. Liu Qi | 349 F. Supp. 2d 1258 | 62 |
| 2005 | Board of Trustees of the Boilermaker Vacation Trust v. Skelly, Inc. | 389 F. Supp. 2d 1222 | 58 |
| 2008 | In Re Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) Antitrust Litigation | 580 F. Supp. 2d 896 | 40 |
| 2010 | Hill v. R+ L CARRIERS, INC. | 690 F. Supp. 2d 1001 | 38 |
| 2002 | Acorn v. Household International, Inc. | 211 F. Supp. 2d 1160 | 38 |
| 2005 | 02 Micro International Ltd. v. Monolithic Power System, Inc. | 399 F. Supp. 2d 1064 | 37 |
| 2005 | Chamberlan v. Ford Motor Co. | 369 F. Supp. 2d 1138 | 34 |
| 2008 | Plascencia v. Lending 1st Mortgage | 583 F. Supp. 2d 1090 | 33 |
| 2002 | Barahona-Gomez v. Ashcroft | 243 F. Supp. 2d 1029 | 30 |
| 1996 | Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. Maphia | 948 F. Supp. 923 | 30 |
| 2009 | Lewis v. Wells Fargo & Co. | 669 F. Supp. 2d 1124 | 29 |
| 1996 | Doe by and Through Doe v. Petaluma City School Dist. | 949 F. Supp. 1415 | 29 |
Showing the 15 most-cited of 140 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.
Questions & answers
- Who appointed Claudia Ann Wilken?
- President William J. Clinton appointed Claudia Ann Wilken to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in 1993.
- Was Claudia Ann Wilken appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?
- Claudia Ann Wilken was appointed by President William J. Clinton, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
- What was Claudia Ann Wilken's confirmation vote?
- Claudia Ann Wilken was confirmed by voice vote on November 20, 1993. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
- Which court is Claudia Ann Wilken on?
- Claudia Ann Wilken is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Sources
Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.
- FJC Biographical Directory
- Wikidata
- Portrait: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
- CourtListener bulk data (Free Law Project): authored opinions & citation counts
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32 years on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).