APABA Silicon Valley Congratulates Judge Eumi K. Lee on being Nominated to Join the N.D. Cal. Bench

APABA Silicon Valley is proud to congratulate Judge Eumi K. Lee on being nominated by President Biden to join the bench of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Judge Lee has been a California state judge of the Alameda County Superior Court since 2018. Previously, Judge Lee was a clinical professor at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) from 2005 to 2018, where she served as co-founder and co-director of the Hastings Institute for Criminal Justice from 2010 to 2012. She was an ethics trainer for San Diego Gas and Electric, Southern California Gas Company and Southern California Edison from 2009 to 2012, and of counsel and a consultant at Gonzalez and Leigh from 2006 to 2012. Judge Lee was also an associate at Keker and Van Nest from 2002 to 2005, a law clerk for the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson at the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit from 2001 to 2002, an associate at Thelen Reid and Priest from 2000 to 2001, and a law clerk for the Honorable Jerome Turner at the U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee from 1999 to 2000. Judge Lee earned her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. from Pomona College. She was the first Korean-American judge ever appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court.

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