San Mateo County
Career Highlights: Nominated to the 1st District Court of Appeal by Gov. Gavin Newsom, February 2023, and confirmed June 2023; appointed to the San Mateo County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Dec. 22, 2017; assistant county counsel, Santa Clara County Counsel's Office, 2012-18; chief of complex and special litigation, chief of appellate litigation, San Francisco City Attorney's Office, 2006-12; supervising staff attorney, judicial staff attorney, California Supreme Court; 1999-06; staff attorney, U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 1998-99; associate, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, PC, San Francisco, 1995-98; clerk, Judge Stanley. A. Weigel, U.S. District Court, Northern District, 1994-95
Law School: Harvard Law School
Career Highlights: Nominated to the 1st District Court of Appeal by Gov. Gavin Newsom, February 2023, and confirmed June 2023; appointed to the San Mateo County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Dec. 22, 2017; assistant county counsel, Santa Clara County Counsel's Office, 2012-18; chief of complex and special litigation, chief of appellate litigation, San Francisco City Attorney's Office, 2006-12; supervising staff attorney, judicial staff attorney, California Supreme Court; 1999-06; staff attorney, U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 1998-99; associate, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, PC, San Francisco, 1995-98; clerk, Judge Stanley. A. Weigel, U.S. District Court, Northern District, 1994-95
Law School: Harvard Law School
For the last 12 years of his career as a lawyer, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Danny Y. Chou worked for the city of San Francisco and, later, for Santa Clara County. So when he took the bench last year and started in preliminary hearings, it seems that experience should have translated.
Nope. Chou worked on complex and special civil litigation in San Francisco. In Santa Clara, he served as assistant county couns... (continued)
