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U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California: Judges
Number of judges: 76
Hoffman, Ogden, Jr. (1851-1866), (1886-1891)
Morrow, William W. (1891-1897)
DeHaven, John Jefferson (1897-1913)
Van Fleet, William Cary (1907-1923)
Dooling, Maurice Timothy (1913-1924)
Partridge, John Slater (1923-1926)
Kerrigan, Frank Henry (1924-1935)
St. Sure, Adolphus Frederic (1925-1949)
Louderback, Harold (1928-1941)
Roche, Michael Joseph (1935-1964)
Welsh, Martin Ignatius (1939-1953)
Goodman, Louis Earl (1942-1961)
Harris, George Bernard (1946-1983)
Lemmon, Dal Millington (1947-1954)
Erskine, Herbert Wilson (1949-1951)
Carter, Oliver Jesse (1950-1976)
Murphy, Edward Preston (1950-1958)
Friedman, Monroe Mark (1952-1953)
Hamlin, Oliver Deveta, Jr. (1953-1958)
Halbert, Sherrill (1954-1966)
Wollenberg, Albert Charles (1958-1981)
Burke, Lloyd Hudson (1958-1988)
Sweigert, William Thomas (1959-1983)
Zirpoli, Alfonso Joseph (1961-1995)
MacBride, Thomas Jamison (1961-1966)
Weigel, Stanley Alexander (1962-1997)
Peckham, Robert Francis (1966-1993)
Levin, Gerald Sanford (1969-1971)
Schnacke, Robert Howard (1970-1994)
Conti, Samuel (1970-2018)
Williams, Spencer Mortimer (1971-2008)
Renfrew, Charles Byron (1971-1980)
Orrick, William Horsley, Jr. (1974-2003)
Poole, Cecil F. (1976-1980)
Schwarzer, William W (1976-2017)
Ingram, William Austin (1976-2002)
Aguilar, Robert Peter (1980-1996)
Patel, Marilyn Hall (1980-2012)
Henderson, Thelton Eugene (1980-present)
Lynch, Eugene F. (1982-1997)
Vukasin, John P., Jr. (1983-1993)
Legge, Charles A. (1984-2001)
Jensen, Delwen Lowell (1986-2014)
Smith, Fern M. (1988-2005)
Walker, Vaughn R. (1989-2011)
Ware, James (1990-2012)
Armstrong, Saundra Brown (1991-present)
Caulfield, Barbara A. (1991-1994)
Whyte, Ronald M. (1992-2023)
Wilken, Claudia Ann (1993-present)
Chesney, Maxine M. (1995-present)
Illston, Susan Yvonne (1995-present)
Breyer, Charles R. (1997-present)
Jenkins, Martin J. (1997-2008)
Fogel, Jeremy D. (1998-2018)
Alsup, William Haskell (1999-present)
Hamilton, Phyllis Jean (2000-present)
White, Jeffrey Steven (2002-present)
Seeborg, Richard G. (2010-present)
Koh, Lucy Haeran (2010-2021)
Davila, Edward John (2011-present)
Chen, Edward Milton (2011-present)
Rogers, Yvonne Gonzalez (2011-present)
Tigar, Jon Steven (2013-present)
Orrick, William Horsley III (2013-present)
Donato, James (2014-present)
Freeman, Beth Labson (2014-present)
Chhabria, Vince Girdhari (2014-present)
Gilliam, Haywood Stirling, Jr. (2014-present)
Corley, Jacqueline Scott (2022-present)
Thompson, Trina Lynn (2022-present)
Martinez-Olguin, Araceli (2023-present)
Pitts, Patrick Casey (2023-present)
Lin, Rita Faye (2023-present)
Lee, Eumi Kim (2024-present)
Wise, Noël (2024-present)