Noël Wise

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Born 1968.

Federal judicial service

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B.S., University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1989
J.D., Nova University (now Nova Southeastern University) Shepard Broad Law Center, 1993
J.S.M., Stanford Law School, 2002

Law clerk, Hon. Harry Lee Anstead, Florida District Court of Appeal, Fourth District, 1993-1994
Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1994-2002
Honors trial attorney, Environmental Enforcement Section, 1994-1997
Assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of California (on detail), 1997-1998
Trial attorney, Environmental Crimes Section, 1998-1999
Trial attorney, Environmental Enforcement Section, 1999-2002
Associate professor, George Washington University Law School, 1995-1997
Adjunct professor, Semester in Washington Program, Vermont Law School, 1997-1998
Adjunct professor, Golden Gate University School of Law, 2000-2001
Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2000-2006
Teaching fellow, Stanford Law School, 2001-2002
Private practice, San Francisco, California, 2002-2004
In-house counsel, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, California, 2004-2006
acting director and manager of Renewable Power Generation, 2005-2006
Private practice, Alameda, California, 2006-2014
Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Alameda, 2014-2024
Judge, Family Law Division, 2014-2016
Assistant supervising judge, Family Law Division, 2017
Panel judge, Appellate Division, 2018-2019
Judge and acting supervising judge, Civil Division, 2018-2021
Supervising judge, Appellate Division, 2019-2021
Judge pro tem, California Court of Appeal, Second District, 2021-2022
Judge, Civil Division, 2023
Supervising judge, Civil Complex Litigation, 2023-2024

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