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was appointed a district judge for the Northern District of California on June 18, 1991. Prior to her appointment to the federal bench, Judge Armstrong served as a California Superior Court judge in Alameda from 1989 to 1991. She was a commissioner at the U.S. Parole Commission from 1986 to 1989 and at the Consumer Product Safety Commission from 1983 to 1986. Judge Armstrong received her B.A. from California State University at Fresno in 1969 and her J.D. from the University of San Francisco, School of Law, in 1977. |
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is the director of the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists at Stanford University. He began his career working in daily newspapers in 1969 for the next 20 years as a reporter, an editorial writer at Riverside (California) Press-Enterprise, and as a city editor for the San Jose Mercury News. He has been a writing and editing consultant, and speaker beginning in the late 80's with Knight Ridder and continuing with the American Press Institute, the Society of Professional Journalists, the U.C. Berkeley School of Journalism, and the Contra Costa Times. Mr. Bettinger was a regular columnist for the San Jose Mercury News from 1990 to 1996. He was named deputy director of the Knight Fellowship program in 1989 and became director in 2000. He was co-host and interviewer of “Interchange” on the Stanford Channel from 1997 to 2000. Mr. Bettinger graduated with honors from U.C. Santa Barbara in 1969.
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was appointed a district judge for the Northern District of California on March 17, 1998. Prior to his appointment to the federal bench, Judge Fogel served as a California Superior Court judge in Santa Clara from 1986 to 1998 and as California Municipal Court judge, Santa Clara County, from 1981 to 1986. He was directing attorney then executive director, Mental Health Advocacy Project, from 1978 to 1981. Judge Fogel received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1971 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1974. |
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is the academic director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University and has been an associate professor of law at SCU School of Law since 2006. Prior to joining the SCU faculty, he was an assistant professor at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was general counsel of Epinions.com and an attorney at Cooley Godward LLP. Mr. Goldman received his B.A. in 1988 from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. in 1994 from UCLA Law School, where he was a member of the UCLA Law Review, and concurrently received his MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. |
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is the civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Prior to joining the EFF, Ms. Granick was a lecturer and executive director of the Center for Internet Society at Stanford Law School. She handles a wide variety of Internet law issues, where her expertise is recognized nationally, including computer crime and security, constitutional rights, electronic surveillance, and national security. Prior to teaching at Stanford, Ms. Granick practiced criminal law in California for nearly a decade. She was named as one of 20 “Women of Vision” in the computer security field by Information Security Magazine. Ms. Granick received her undergraduate degree from the New College of the University of South Florida and her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. |
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is a Georgia native and a graduate of Cornell Law School. After living in New York for several years, she moved to San Francisco in 2004. After working at Jones Day for two years, she went in-house as an employment counsel for Bechtel Corporation in 2006. While working at Bechtel, she began writing about local politics and legal cases on a blog she created - www.thesweetmelissa.com. Melissa's work appeared in a number of local publications in 2007, and in 2008 she was offered a position as a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner. She enthusiastically accepted and continues to publish two to three articles each Thursday. In addition to appearances on television and radio, Melissa is a frequent public speaker at community events and organizations. She still writes for the web site where it all started, The Sweet Melissa. |
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was appointed a district judge for the Southern District of California on May 9, 1991. She served as chief judge of the district from 1998 to 2005. She is chair of the Ninth Circuit’s Public Information and Community Outreach (PICO) Committee. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Huff was a partner with a law firm in San Diego, California. She specialized in civil litigation and media law from 1976 to 1991. She received the San Diego County Bar Association’s awards for Legal Professional of the Year and for Service to the Legal Profession. Judge Huff received her undergraduate degree from Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1972 and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1976. |
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was appointed a district judge for the Northern District of California on May 26, 1995. Prior to her appointment to the bench, she engaged in private practice in Burlingame, California, from 1973 to 1995. Judge Illston received her B.A. from Duke University in 1970 and her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1973. |
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is senior editor and legal writer for RedwoodAge.com, and a columnist for California Lawyer Magazine. She is the former California bureau chief for the National Law Journal in San Francisco. She has been a reporter for nearly 30 years and covered the courts and the law for 20 years, first for United Press International in San Francisco in the 1980s. In 1996, she joined the San Francisco Daily Journal covering the Ninth Circuit and federal district court in San Francisco. She has appeared on C-Span’s “America and the Courts” as well as radio programs in Los Angeles and San Francisco addressing the law. Pam received awards for investigative journalism and business reporting from the Associated Press. |
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has been legal affairs reporter for the San Jose Mercury News since 1997. Overall, he has covered courts and the law for the past 18 years for a variety of newspapers, including The Recorder in San Francisco. Mr. Mintz is a 1982 graduate of Ohio University. |
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is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. She has more than 20 years of experience in intellectual property and First Amendment-related litigation, including representation of television stations, radio stations, motion picture producers, newspapers, book authors, publishers, and national magazine clients, both at the trial and appellate levels of state and federal courts. She is a member of the Judicial Council of California’s Bench Bar Media Steering Committee and chair of the Western Division for the ABA Forum on Communications Law. Ms. Sager was named as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” in First Amendment Litigation (National) by Chambers USA, from 2007 to 2009 and has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White, Inc.) since 1995. Ms. Sager received her B.A. in 1981 from USC and West Georgia College, and her J.D. in 1985 from the University of Utah, College of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Utah Law Review. |
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has been the executive director of the First Amendment Coalition since 2004. He is a lawyer and a journalist who previously worked as editor and publisher of The Recorder in San Francisco and as publisher of the Legal Times in Washington, D.C. He was the chief executive officer of Callaw.com and Law.com. Mr. Scheer engaged in private practice focusing on appellate law and was a partner in the Washington, D.C., firm of Onek, Klein & Farr. He worked in the Department of Justice and served as general counsel to the National Security Archive. He received the Eugene S. Pulliam First Amendment Award and the James Madison Freedom of Information Award. Mr. Scheer received his B.A. from Amherst College, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. in 1978 from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review. |
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was appointed a district judge for the Northern District of California on November 27, 1989, and has been the chief district judge since 2004. Prior to his appointment to the bench, he engaged in private practice in San Francisco, California, from 1972 to 1990. Judge Walker received his A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1966 and his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1970. |
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