U.S. Northern District of California (Oakland)
Career Highlights: Appointed U.S. magistrate judge in the Northern District, 2010; professor, civil Justice Clinic, UC Hastings College of the Law, 2002-10; professor, associate director, Women's Employment Rights Clinic, Golden Gate University School of Law, 1998-2002; partner, Ryu, Dickey & Larkin, 1994-97; sole practitioner, 1993-94 and 1997-98; associate, Saperstein, Mayeda, Larkin & Goldstein, 1988-93; associate McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, 1986-88
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law
Career Highlights: Appointed U.S. magistrate judge in the Northern District, 2010; professor, civil Justice Clinic, UC Hastings College of the Law, 2002-10; professor, associate director, Women's Employment Rights Clinic, Golden Gate University School of Law, 1998-2002; partner, Ryu, Dickey & Larkin, 1994-97; sole practitioner, 1993-94 and 1997-98; associate, Saperstein, Mayeda, Larkin & Goldstein, 1988-93; associate McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, 1986-88
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law
By Rebecca Beyer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
OAKLAND - When Donna M. Ryu decided in 2009 to apply to become a magistrate judge, all her friends thought she was crazy.
Not because they weren't sure how she'd do on the bench, but because taking the bench would mean leaving a job she thoroughly enjoyed.
"But you love your job," Ryu remembers them saying.
Ryu, then a clinical professor at UC Hastings College of the Law, could... (continued)
