Alameda County (San Leandro)
Career Highlights: Appointed to the 1st District Court of Appeal by Gov. Gavin Newsom, and confirmed May 2024; appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, April 8, 2010; senior associate, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco, 2005-10; deputy district attorney, Alameda County, 1997-2005
Law School: UC Hastings College of the Law, 1997
Career Highlights: Appointed to the 1st District Court of Appeal by Gov. Gavin Newsom, and confirmed May 2024; appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, April 8, 2010; senior associate, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco, 2005-10; deputy district attorney, Alameda County, 1997-2005
Law School: UC Hastings College of the Law, 1997
By Amy Yarbrough
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN LEANDRO - Growing up, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Tara Desautels was painfully shy.
Then she got hooked on the law.
The Bay Area native got her first taste of a courtroom - albeit it a mock one - when she was chosen to play the prosecutor in her junior high's reenactment of the historic Haymarket Trial, which saw eight anarchist labor leaders convicted, despite a lack of evidence, of mu... (continued)
