Marsha L. Berzon
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Marsha L. Berzon (born in 1945 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a federal appeals judge who has served on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2000.
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[edit] Education and legal training
Berzon graduated with a B.A. from Radcliffe College in 1966 and received her law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley in 1973. She then clerked for Judge James R. Browning of the Ninth Circuit from 1973 to 1974. Berzon then clerked for Associate Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court. She was Justice Brennan's first female law clerk.
[edit] Professional life
Berzon was in private practice in Washington, DC from 1975 to 1977 and then moved to San Francisco, California where she practiced from 1978 to 2000 at a union-side law firm founded by herself, her husband Stephen Berzon, and Fred Altshuler. Berzon had a unique Supreme Court litigation practice and litigated many of the landmark cases during that period. Berzon was also a lecturer at UC Berkeley in 1992 and a practitioner-in-residence at Cornell Law School in 1994.
[edit] Federal judicial service
Berzon was nominated by Bill Clinton to the Ninth Circuit for the seat vacated by John T. Noonan on January 26, 1999. She was confirmed on March 9, 2000 and received her commission on March 16, 2000.
[edit] External links
- Resume at Federal Judicial Center's webpage
