United States District Court - Northern District Court of California

Claudia Wilken, Chief Judge

Richard W. Wieking, Clerk of Court

Article III Judges of the Northern District

9 STAT 521
(1850)
1 seat
34 STAT 1253
(1907)
1 seat
42 STAT 837
(1922)
1 seat
52 STAT 584
(1938)
1 seat
60 STAT 260
(1946)
1 seat
63 STAT 493
(1949)
1 of 2 seats
Hoffman, Ogden Jr.
1851 – 1891

Morrow, William W.
1892 – 1897
(r. appt. 1891)

De Haven, John J.
1897 – 1913

Dooling, Maurice T.
1913 – 1924

St. Sure, Adolphus F.
1925 – 1949
(sr. 1947)

Erskine, Herbert W.
1949 – 1951

Friedman, Monroe M.
1952 – 1953
(r. appt. not conf.)

Hamlin, Oliver D. Jr.
1953 – 1958

Burke, Lloyd H.
1958 – 1988
(sr. 1979)

Patel, Marilyn H.
1980 – 2012
(sr. 2009)

Davila, Edward J.
2011 –

Van Fleet, William C.
1907 – 1923
(r. appt. 1907)

Kerrigan, Frank H.
1924 – 1935

Roche, Michael J.
1935 – 1964
(sr. 1958)

Wollenberg, Albert C.
1958 – 1981
(sr. 1975)

Schwarzer, William W
1976 – 2009
(sr. 1991)

Caulfield, Barbara A. 
1991 – 1994

Illston, Susan Y.
1995 –
Partridge, John S.
1923 – 1926

Louderback, Harold
1928 – 1941

Goodman, Louis E.
1942 – 1961

Weigel, Stanley A.
1962 – 1997
(sr. 1982)

Vukasin, John P. Jr.
1983 – 1993

Chesney, Maxine M.
1995 –
(sr. 2009)

Seeborg, Richard G.
2010 –
Welsh, Martin I.
1939 – 1953
(sr. 1947)

Lemmon, Dal M.
1947 – 1954

Halbert, Sherrill
1954 – 1966

Seat relocated to
new Eastern District
of California by
80 STAT 75 (1966)
Harris, George B.
1946 – 1983
(sr. 1970)

Schnacke, Robert H.
1970 – 1994
(sr. 1983)

Legge, Charles A.
1984 – 2001

White, Jeffrey S.
2002 –
Carter, Oliver J.
1950 – 1976
(r. appt. 1950)
(sr. 1976)

Poole, Cecil F.
1976 – 1980

Henderson, Thelton E.
1980 – 
(sr. 1998)

Alsup, William H.
1999 –