Alameda County (Hayward)
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, May 22, 2017; partner, Antolin, Agarwal, & Chatterjee, San Francisco, 2017; partner, associate, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, 1997-99 and 2000-17; deputy public defender, Contra Costa County, 1999-2000; associate, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, San Francisco, 1995-96; clerk to Judge A. Andrew Hauk, Central District, 1994-95
Law School: UC Hastings, College of the Law
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, May 22, 2017; partner, Antolin, Agarwal, & Chatterjee, San Francisco, 2017; partner, associate, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, 1997-99 and 2000-17; deputy public defender, Contra Costa County, 1999-2000; associate, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, San Francisco, 1995-96; clerk to Judge A. Andrew Hauk, Central District, 1994-95
Law School: UC Hastings, College of the Law
HAYWARD -- Shortly after 9/11, Judge Somnath Raj Chatterjee took on one of the nation's first terrorism cases. His team represented John Walker Lindh, a U.S. citizen who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and accused of fighting for the Taliban against the Northern Alliance.
"I think it was a 10-count indictment," the judge said. "The lead count was conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens abroad."
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