County (Richmond)
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Contra Costa County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Oct. 26, 2018, retired November 2021; staff attorney, American Civil Liberties Union, San Francisco 2010-18; partner, associate, Altshuler Berzon LLP, San Francisco, 2002-10; clerk to U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Washington D.C. 2000-01
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Contra Costa County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Oct. 26, 2018, retired November 2021; staff attorney, American Civil Liberties Union, San Francisco 2010-18; partner, associate, Altshuler Berzon LLP, San Francisco, 2002-10; clerk to U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Washington D.C. 2000-01
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law
RICHMOND — Judge Linda Lye has an extensive Singaporean family thanks, in part, to new marriage laws on the books before the multi-ethnic Southeast Asian nation’s independence in 1965.
“My grandfather had three wives when that was still permissible,” she explained. “So my grandmother was the third wife.”
The arrangement produced a lot of cousins scattered across the globe, and during the... (continued)
