Alameda County (Oakland)
Career Highlights: Appointed to the US District Court for the Northern District of California by President Joe Biden and confirmed May 2022; elected to the Alameda County Superior Court, 2002; deputy public defender in Alameda, 5 years; private criminal defense, 9 years
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law
Career Highlights: Appointed to the US District Court for the Northern District of California by President Joe Biden and confirmed May 2022; elected to the Alameda County Superior Court, 2002; deputy public defender in Alameda, 5 years; private criminal defense, 9 years
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law
By Laura Hautala
Daily Journal Staff Writer
OAKLAND - Trina Thompson likes to send signals in her courtroom. On a day that she was working through some 30 hearings on the status of convicted criminals' restitution payments, she wore a red fish-patterned scarf.
"If I can teach them to fish... " she explained later in her chambers, saying the scarf was meant to encourage people on probation to become self-sufficient.
She also has four... (continued)
