Alma mater

University of California, Berkeley

47 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
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
William B. Shubb	A.B.	Judge	1960
Frank C. Damrell Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1961
James Keith Singleton Jr.	A.B.	Judge	1961
Maxine M. Chesney	B.A.	Judge	1964
Lawrence Joseph O'Neill	B.A.	Judge	1973
Edward Milton Chen	A.B.	Judge	1975
Beth Labson Freeman	B.A.	Judge	1976
Kiyo A. Matsumoto	B.A.	Judge	1976
Sandra Segal Ikuta	A.B.	Judge	1976
James Donato	B.A.	Judge	1983
Trina Lynn Thompson	A.B.	Judge	1983
Jacqueline Scott Corley	B.A.	Judge	1988
Nicole Gina Berner	B.A.	Judge	1988
Fernando Manzano Olguin	M.A.	Judge	1989
Paul Jeffrey Watford	B.A.	Judge	1989
Todd Wallace Robinson	B.A.	Judge	1989
Mustafa Taher Kasubhai	B.S.	Judge	1992
John Byron Owens	B.A.	Judge	1993
James Edward Simmons Jr.	B.A.	Judge	2001
Ana Isabel de Alba	B.A.	Judge	2002
Harold Montelle Stephens		Judge	–

Source: FJC Biographical Directory. Data last verified 2026-06-28. Verify against the primary source before relying.