Virginia K. DeMarchi

Appointed magistrate judge June 2018. DeMarchi spent more than 20 years litigating on behalf of life sciences and technology companies as a partner at Fenwick & West LLP, working out of the Palo Alto office. She represented Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute in a dispute with Eli Lilly and Co. DeMarchi and her team convinced the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in February to revive a crucial pharmaceutical patent that had been invalidated by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Prior to entering private practice, she worked for two years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice's civil division and spent a year clerking for U.S. District Judge Steven J. McAuliffe in New Hampshire.