Vince Girdhari Chhabria
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Born 1969.
Federal judicial service
Newest firstJudge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- Appointed by
- Barack Obama (Democratic)
- Nominated
- Jan 6, 2014
- Senate vote
- 58 to 41
- Confirmed
- Mar 5, 2014
- Commissioned
- Mar 7, 2014
Education
- B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991
- J.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, 1998
Career
- Staff member, U.S. Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey of California, 1992-1995
- campaign field coordinator, Petaluma, California, 1992
- legislative assistant, Washington, D.C., 1993-1994, 1995
- deputy campaign manager, Petaluma, California, 1994
- Law clerk, Hon. Charles R. Breyer, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1998-1999
- Law clerk, Hon. James R. Browning, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1999-2000
- Private practice, San Francisco, California, 2001, 2002-2004
- Law clerk, Hon. Stephen G. Breyer, Supreme Court of the United States, 2001-2002
- Deputy city attorney for government litigation, San Francisco, California, 2005-2014
- co-chief of appellate litigation, 2011-2014
Other nominations
Nominated to U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, July 25, 2013; no Senate vote
DataSources: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal JudgesData as of Oct 29, 2026
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