Magistrate Judge
Bernard Zimmerman
San Francisco Courthouse, Courtroom D - 15th Floor450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102
| Criminal Law & Motion | Second and Fourth Wednesday of the month | 1:30 p.m. |
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| Civil Law & Motion | First and Third Wednesday of the month | 10:00 a.m. |
| Case Management & Status Conferences | Mondays | 4:00 p.m. |
| Civil Case Docketing | Thelma Nudo | 415-522-2067 |
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| Thelma_Nudo@cand.uscourts.gov | ||
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| Case terminal digits 1-3: | Ruby Woo | 415-522-2076 |
| Case terminal digits 4-6: | Lori Murray | 415-522-2093 |
| Case terminal digits 7-0: | Simone Voltz | 415-522-2042 |
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| Judicial Assistant | Rose Maher | 415-522-4093 |
| Email for Proposed Orders: | BZpo@cand.uscourts.gov | |
| Email for PDF Follow-Ups: |
BZpdf@cand.uscourts.gov (Civil) CRIMpdf@cand.uscourts.gov (Criminal) |
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About Magistrate Judge Bernard Zimmerman
Magistrate Judge Bernard Zimmerman was appointed in 1995. He retired recently but has been recalled by the Ninth Circuit to continue to serve. With party consent, he has presided over a wide range of civil cases, including patent, trademark and copyright cases, class actions, contract and employment cases and civil rights, personal injury and admiralty cases. He has presided over more than 50 civil and criminal jury and bench trials and more than 1,000 settlement conferences.
A 1970 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, he clerked for the Honorable Frederick J.R. Heebe in the Eastern District of Louisiana and then taught law at the Louisiana State University Law Center. Returning to California, he was an associate and then partner at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro where he had a general litigation practice focusing on media, banking, construction, insurance and business issues. In 1995, he served as Legal Consultant to the Third Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
In past years, he has taught Federal Pretrial Litigation at Hastings College of the Law. He is a master of the Intellectual Property Inn of Court and has participated in numerous panels addressing issues such as ADR, class actions and discovery.
