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University of California-Berkeley

268 U.S. federal judges studied here. See where it ranks among law schools by judges produced.

Judges

Judge	Degree	Role	Year
John Slater Partridge	A.B.	Judge	1892
William Denman	B.Litt.	Judge	1894
Harry Aaron Hollzer	B.L.	Judge	1902
Herbert Wilson Erskine	A.B.	Judge	1908
Earl Warren	B.A.	Chief Justice	1912
Louis Earl Goodman	B.A.	Judge	1913
Oliver Deveta Hamlin Jr.	B.L.	Judge	1914
Monroe Mark Friedman	A.B.	Judge	1916
Albert Charles Wollenberg	A.B.	Judge	1922
Stanley Nelson Barnes	A.B.	Judge	1922
Sherrill Halbert	A.B.	Judge	1924
Alfonso Joseph Zirpoli	A.B.	Judge	1926
Gerald Sanford Levin	A.B.	Judge	1927
Charles Merton Merrill	A.B.	Judge	1928
Edward Joseph Schwartz	A.B.	Judge	1934
Thomas Jamison MacBride	A.B.	Judge	1936
Milton Lewis Schwartz	A.B.	Judge	1941
Edward Dean Price	A.B.	Judge	1947
William Perry Copple	B.A.	Judge	1948
Delwen Lowell Jensen	A.B.	Judge	1949
John P. Vukasin Jr.	A.B.	Judge	1950
Coleman A. Blease		Associate Justice	1952
David Vreeland Kenyon	B.A.	Judge	1952
Robert Peter Aguilar	B.A.	Judge	1954
Thelton Eugene Henderson	B.A.	Judge	1956
William Duffy Keller	B.S.	Judge	1956
M. James Lorenz	B.A.	Judge	1957
James A. Kaddo	International Relations	Judge	1958
Ronald B. Robie	Journalism	Associate Justice	1960
William B. Shubb	A.B.	Judge	1960
Frank C. Damrell Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1961
James Keith Singleton Jr.	A.B.	Judge	1961
Runston Gould Maino		Judge	1961
Arthur Gilbert		Presiding Justice	1963
Stephen V. R. Manley	Behavioral Science	Judge	1963
Maxine M. Chesney	B.A.	Judge	1964
Jeffrey S. Brand		Judge	1966
Judith Dobson McConnell		Presiding Justice	1966
Roger W. Boren	Political Science	Presiding Justice	1966
Bernard J. Garber		Judge	1967
Terry Lee Smerling	with honors	Judge	1967
Clifford Vahan Cretan		Judge	1969
Jane A. Restani	B.A.	Judge	1969
Terence Lee Bruiniers		Associate Justice	1969
Frank Roesch		Judge	1970
Robert Louis Dondero		Associate Justice	1970
William Wiley Bedsworth Jr.		Judge	1971
Michael Larned Stern		Judge	1972
Lawrence Joseph O'Neill	B.A.	Judge	1973
Nancy Case Shaffer		Judge	1973
Stephen David Kaus		Judge	1973
Donald R. Franson Jr.	American History	Associate Justice	1974
Mark Wood Snauffer	Political Science, with high honors	Associate Justice	1974
Patricia Guerrero		Chief Justice	1974
Clifford Loss Klein		Judge	1975
Edward Milton Chen	A.B.	Judge	1975
Holly J. Fujie		Judge	1975
John Frederick Vogt		Judge	1975
Sarah Howland Heckman		Judge	1975
Beth Labson Freeman	B.A.	Judge	1976
Evelio M. Grillo		Judge	1976
Kiyo A. Matsumoto	B.A.	Judge	1976
Sandra Segal Ikuta	A.B.	Judge	1976
Susanne M. Fenstermacher	Political Science	Judge	1976
Therese Marie Foley		Judge	1976
Emily Elizabeth Vasquez		Judge	1977
Fred Jiru Fujioka		Judge	1977
Lisa Hart Cole		Judge	1977
Paul David Herbert		Judge	1977
Ray Antonio Nava Santana		Judge	1977
Donald J. Ayoob	Sociology, English Literature	Judge	1978
Gail Angela O'Rane		Judge	1978
Rafael Astraquill Ongkeko		Judge	1978
Elizabeth K. Lee	Economics	Judge	1979
James Edward Rogan	Political Science	Judge	1979
John Daniel Freeland		Judge	1979
Maria Elena Stratton		Associate Justice	1979
Susan Marie Breall	B.A. Italian, high honors	Judge	1979
Terri Ann Mockler	Sociology	Judge	1979
Albert Theodore Harutunian III		Judge	1980
Angela M. Bradstreet		Judge	1980
Anne Harwood Egerton		Associate Justice	1980
Esteban Hernández		Judge	1980
Jennifer Conn Shirk	Political Science	Judge	1980
Kathleen Anne Kelly		Judge	1980
Kelvin Dean Filer		Judge	1980
Mark Ernest Windham		Judge	1980
Adolfo Martinez Corona		Judge	1981
Daryl Eugene Kennedy		Judge	1981
Gregory Allen Syren		Judge	1981
Jamie Olsen Thistlethwaite		Judge	1981
Jon Burgess Streeter		Associate Justice	1981
Jose I. Sandoval		Judge	1981
Martha K. Gooding		Judge	1981
Matthew C. Braner		Judge	1981
Nancy Leavitt Fineman	Political Science	Judge	1981
Therese Marie Stewart		Associate Justice	1981
Dana Beernink Simonds		Judge	1982
Daniel Juarez		Judge	1982
Elisabeth Keiko Mineta		Judge	1982
Erica Robin Yew	with honors	Judge	1982
Khymberli S.Y. Apaloo		Judge	1982
Peter Hunt Kirwan	Political Science	Judge	1982
Steve Cochran		Judge	1982
Teresa Marie Caffese		Judge	1982
Ethan P. Schulman		Judge	1983
James Donato	B.A.	Judge	1983
Trina Lynn Thompson	A.B.	Judge	1983
Trina Lynn Thompson Stanley	Legal Studies	Judge	1983
Adrienne M. Grover		Associate Justice	1984
Ann I. Jones		Judge	1984
Brian Joseph Lamb		Presiding Judge	1984
Catherine Joan Pratt		Judge	1984
Dalila Corral Lyons		Judge	1984
David R. Fields		Judge	1984
Tammy Chung Ryu		Judge	1984
Timothy Sipes Covello	Legal Studies	Judge	1984
Beth S. Jordan		Judge	1985
Douglas Warren Sortino		Judge	1985
Mark C. Kim		Judge	1985
Mark H. Epstein		Judge	1985
Rebecca Connolly Dlott	highest honors	Judge	1985
Fernando Lazoro Aenlle-Rocha		Judge	1986
Sabina Annette Helton		Judge	1986
Sonia Cortés		Judge	1986
Suzanne Ramos Bolanos		Judge	1986
Ann H. Park		Judge	1987
Benjamin T. Reyes II		Judge	1987
Drew Elliot Edwards		Judge	1987
Gerardo Campos Sandoval		Judge	1987
Joni Takayo Hiramoto		Judge	1987
Martha Alys Matthews		Judge	1987
Megan Louise Wagner		Judge	1987
Michael Bertram McNaughton		Judge	1987
Nancy Anne Ramirez		Judge	1987
Stephen Paul Freccero		Judge	1987
Christopher Edward Krueger		Judge	1988
David Andrew Hoffer		Judge	1988
Ioana Petrou		Associate Justice	1988
Jacqueline Scott Corley	B.A.	Judge	1988
Nicole Gina Berner	B.A.	Judge	1988
Ronald Andrew Northup		Judge	1988
Thomas Matthew Reardon		Judge	1988
Charles Quinten Clay III		Judge	1989
Fernando Manzano Olguin	M.A.	Judge	1989
Paul Jeffrey Watford	B.A.	Judge	1989
Sheila Shah Lichtblau	Political Science, French Literature	Judge	1989
Todd Wallace Robinson	B.A.	Judge	1989
Valli Katrina Israels		Judge	1989
Victor Murray Hwang	English	Judge	1989
Cheri Thi Pham		Judge	1990
Clare Marie Maier		Judge	1990
Colin T. Bowen		Judge	1990
Jacqueline Honovich Lewis		Judge	1990
Ursula M. Jones Dickson	Sociology	Judge	1990
Audra Ibarra		Judge	1991
Gregory Arthur Dohi		Judge	1991
Jason Anthony Clay		Judge	1991
Peter A. Hernandez		Judge	1991
Samantha P. Jessner		Judge	1991
Scott Bradley Cooper		Judge	1991
Sergio C. Tapia II		Judge	1991
Steven Andrew Ellis		Judge	1991
Christopher K. Lui	Political Science	Judge	1992
Eric P. Harmon		Judge	1992
Julian Carlo Recana	Economics	Judge	1992
Laura Louise Laesecke		Judge	1992
Laura Raene Walton-Everett	Political Science	Judge	1992
Mustafa Taher Kasubhai	B.S.	Judge	1992
Nathan Daniel Ide		Judge	1992
Teresa H. Pearson	Political Science	U.S. Bankruptcy Judge	1992
Alan Keith Schneider		Judge	1993
John Byron Owens	B.A.	Judge	1993
Richard Ken Sueyoshi		Judge	1993
Ruben N. Garcia		Judge	1993
Sunil Ravindra Kulkarni	Mechanical Engineering	Judge	1993
Yvette Verastegui		Judge	1993
Andrew C. Kim		Judge	1994
David E. Goldstein		Judge	1994
Jennifer Madden	African American Studies, Political Science	Judge	1994
Joseph Martin Quinn		Judge	1994
Lillian Vega Jacobs		Judge	1994
Michael M. Markman	History, Political Science	Judge	1994
William James Pendergast III		Judge	1994
Arturo Castro		Judge	1995
Deborah Chuang Servino		Judge	1995
Laura Haas Parsky		Judge	1995
Marian Fitzgerald Gaston		Judge	1996
Mark Kiyo Hanasono		Judge	1996
Monique Shauntel Langhorne-Johnson	Rhetoric, African-American Studies	Judge	1996
Tracie Lynne Brown		Associate Justice	1996
Stephen Ira Goorvitch		Judge	1998
Wade Maxwell Rhyne	Economics	Judge	1998
Linda Cheng Yee Lye		Judge	1999
Michelle Erika DeCasas		Judge	1999
James Edward Simmons Jr.	B.A.	Judge	2001
Kira Lee Klatchko		Judge	2001
Ana Isabel de Alba	B.A.	Judge	2002
Hernaldo J. Baltodano		Judge	2002
John Charles Weller	English Literature	Judge	2002
Amarra Autumn Lee		Judge	2003
Victor A. Rodríguez		Associate Justice	2003
David Yaroslavsky	History, Political Science	Judge	2004
Daniel Martin Wolk		Judge	2005
Eran Marie Bermudez		Judge	2005
Alesia Francine Jones		Judge	–
Alessandro A. Ricciardulli		Judge	–
Allen Broussard		Associate Justice	–
Amber S. Rosen		Judge	–
Ana Isabel de Alba		Judge	–
Andrea E. Flint		Judge	–
Anita Louise Santos	Sociology	Judge	–
Beverly K. Wood		Judge	–
Braden Comegys Woods		Judge	–
Carlos Enrique Vazquez		Judge	–
Carlos R. Moreno		Justice	–
Cruz Reynoso		Associate Justice	–
Cynthia Chin Young Lie		Judge	–
Daniel Bruce Goldstein		Judge	–
Delia Trevino		Judge	–
Edward George Weil	Political Science	Judge	–
Enrique Monguia		Judge	–
Francine Zepeda		Judge	–
Frank C. Newman		Justice	–
Gloria J Cannon		Judge	–
Gus Correa Barrera II		Presiding Judge	–
Harold Montelle Stephens		Judge	–
Helena R. Gweon	English Literature	Judge	–
Homer R. Spence		Justice	–
Hugo Jimenez Loza		Judge	–
James D. Cameron		Justice	–
James Earl Simmons Jr.		Judge	–
James Kenneth Voysey		Judge	–
James Reginald Reilly		Judge	–
Jeffrey Clayton Kauffman		Judge	–
Jesse W. Curtis Sr.		Justice	–
Joel S. Agron		Judge	–
Jonathan Leo Rosenbloom		Judge	–
Jose Omar Rodriguez		Judge	–
Joseph Ray Porras		Judge	–
Kathryn Werdegar		Justice	–
Kenneth James Fernandez		Judge	–
Kerry L. White		Judge	–
Lee W. Tsao		Judge	–
Malcolm Millar Lucas		Chief Justice	–
Margaret Fujioka		Judge	–
Maurice Sanchez		Judge	–
Morgan Christen		Justice	–
Newton Jue Lam		Judge	–
Pamela Monica Villanueva		Judge	–
Patricia Mary Scanlon		Judge	–
Paul Attilio Delucchi		Judge	–
Peter Andrew Krause		Associate Justice	–
Robert Geoffrey Mangano		Judge	–
Ronald M. George		Associate Justice	–
Rose Elizabeth Bird		Chief Justice	–
Rubén Antonio Villalobos		Judge	–
Saba Sheibani		Judge	–
Shereen J. Charlick		Judge	–
Stephen Mark Pulido	Political Science	Judge	–
Steven C. Gonzalez		Justice	–
Tara K. James		Judge	–
Terrance Theron Lewis		Judge	–
Thomas E. Stevens		Judge	–
Thomas William Caldecott		Associate Justice	–
Tilisha Tionette Martin		Judge	–
Victor Howard Greenberg		Judge	–
William P. Clark Jr.		Associate Justice	–

Source: FJC Biographical Directory. Data last verified 2026-08-15. Verify against the primary source before relying.