Alameda County (Oakland)
Career Highlights: Nominated to the Northern District of California by Pres. Joe Biden, July 2023, confirmed March 2024; appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Dec. 7, 2018; clinical professor, UC Hastings College of the Law, 2005-18; sole practitioner, San Francisco, 2017; of counsel, Gonzalez & Leigh LLP, San Francisco, 2006-08, 2010-12; associate, Keker & Van Nest, San Francisco, 2002-05; associate, Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, San Francisco, 2000-01; clerk, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Warren Ferguson, Santa Ana, 2001-02; clerk, U.S. District Court Judge Jerome Turner, Western District of Tennessee, 1999-2000
Law School: Georgetown University Law Center
Career Highlights: Nominated to the Northern District of California by Pres. Joe Biden, July 2023, confirmed March 2024; appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Dec. 7, 2018; clinical professor, UC Hastings College of the Law, 2005-18; sole practitioner, San Francisco, 2017; of counsel, Gonzalez & Leigh LLP, San Francisco, 2006-08, 2010-12; associate, Keker & Van Nest, San Francisco, 2002-05; associate, Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, San Francisco, 2000-01; clerk, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Warren Ferguson, Santa Ana, 2001-02; clerk, U.S. District Court Judge Jerome Turner, Western District of Tennessee, 1999-2000
Law School: Georgetown University Law Center
OAKLAND — Judge Eumi Lee grew up in a town known for radioactive frogs, laboratories and forbidden areas she could not enter.
It might sound like the backdrop for a science fiction novel, but it’s a very real city in Tennessee called Oak Ridge, the birthplace of the atomic bomb.
“There were restricted areas you couldn’t enter,” she said. “There were signs and gates. ... There’d be restr... (continued)
