Northern District of California (San Francisco)
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Northern District Court by President Barack Obama, May 9, 2011; U.S. magistrate judge, Northern District, 2001-11; staff attorney, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, 1985-2001; attorney, Coblentz, Cahen, McCabe & Breyer, 1982-85; law clerk, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge James R. Browning, 1982-82; attorney, Asian Law Caucus, 1980-81; law clerk, U.S. District judge Charles Renfrew, Northern District of California, 1979-80
Law School: University of Berkeley School of Law, 1976
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Northern District Court by President Barack Obama, May 9, 2011; U.S. magistrate judge, Northern District, 2001-11; staff attorney, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, 1985-2001; attorney, Coblentz, Cahen, McCabe & Breyer, 1982-85; law clerk, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge James R. Browning, 1982-82; attorney, Asian Law Caucus, 1980-81; law clerk, U.S. District judge Charles Renfrew, Northern District of California, 1979-80
Law School: University of Berkeley School of Law, 1976
SAN FRANCISCO — The locals could tell Judge Edward M. Chen was a tourist when he strolled into the corner karaoke bar.
Chen’s friends wondered why the soon-to-be district court judge awaiting his third and final confirmation hearing in 2011 wore khaki cargo shorts, tennis shoes and knee-high white socks to the tiki bar a little off the beach in Hawaii. They tried to distance themselves.
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