Who appointed James Ware?

President George H.W. Bush appointed James Ware to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in 1990.

Was James Ware appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

James Ware was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was James Ware's confirmation vote?

James Ware was confirmed by voice vote on September 28, 1990. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

Northern District of California / Appointed 1990 / Served to 2012

James Ware

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 and confirmed by voice vote, James Ware was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. He earned a law degree from Stanford Law School in 1972. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Appointed by: George H.W. Bush, 1990
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: California Lutheran 1969 · Stanford Law School 1972
Succeeded: Robert Francis Peckham
Succeeded by: James Donato

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Northern District of California succeeded Robert Francis Peckham	G.H.W. Bush (R)	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

California Lutheran University	B.A.	1969
Stanford Law School	J.D.	1972

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Ware was assigned 5,641 district-court cases (1982–2012). Median time from filing to termination: 247 days across 5,641 closed cases.

Prisoner & habeas28%

Civil rights14%

Contract13%

Intellectual property9%

Other federal statutes9%

Labor & ERISA7%

Other20%

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 126 of Ware’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 90 were affirmed, 23 reversed or vacated, and 13 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, Ware authored 113 published opinions for the court (1991–2011). Most cited: Dannenberg v. Ingle (112 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
1993	Dannenberg v. Ingle	831 F. Supp. 767	112
1993	Johns v. Town of Los Gatos	834 F. Supp. 1230	86
2009	Pantoja v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.	640 F. Supp. 2d 1177	56
2009	Mangindin v. Washington Mutual Bank	637 F. Supp. 2d 700	39
2008	In Re Apple & AT & TM Antitrust Litigation	596 F. Supp. 2d 1288	31
2011	In Re Facebook Privacy Litigation	791 F. Supp. 2d 705	30
2009	New York City Employees' Retirement System v. Berry	667 F. Supp. 2d 1121	29
2004	Qarbon. Com Inc. v. eHelp Corp.	315 F. Supp. 2d 1046	28
2002	SI V, LLC v. FMC Corp.	223 F. Supp. 2d 1059	27
1992	Western Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Heflin Corp.	797 F. Supp. 790	23
1991	Allstate Insurance v. LaPore	762 F. Supp. 268	20
2008	E. Piphany, Inc. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.	590 F. Supp. 2d 1244	19
2006	Gorman v. Wolpoff & Abramson, LLP	435 F. Supp. 2d 1004	19
2001	Asante Technologies, Inc. v. PMC-Sierra, Inc.	164 F. Supp. 2d 1142	19
2002	Hua Lin v. Universal Card Services Corp.	238 F. Supp. 2d 1147	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 113 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 James Ware?: President George H.W. Bush appointed James Ware to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in 1990.
Was James Ware appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: James Ware was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was James Ware's confirmation vote?: James Ware was confirmed by voice vote on September 28, 1990. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was James Ware on?: James Ware was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Sources

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21 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).