Charles R. Breyer
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Senior status. Born 1941.
Federal judicial service
Newest firstJudge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- Appointed by
- William J. Clinton (Democratic)
- Nominated
- Jul 24, 1997
- Senate vote
- Voice vote
- Confirmed
- Nov 8, 1997
- Commissioned
- Nov 12, 1997
- Senior status
- Dec 31, 2011
Education
- A.B., Harvard College, 1963
- J.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, 1966
Career
- Law clerk, Hon. Oliver Carter, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1966-1967
- Counsel, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco [California], 1967
- Assistant district attorney, City and County of San Francisco, California, 1967-1973, 1979
- chief assistant, 1979
- Assistant special prosecutor, Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 1973-1974
- Private practice, San Francisco, California, 1974-1979, 1980-1997
- Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 2006-2010
- Member, U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, 2011-2018
- Commissioner, U.S. Sentencing Commission, 2013-2022
- vice chair, 2013-2017
- acting chair, 2021-2022
DataSources: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal JudgesData as of Oct 29, 2026
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