District court

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Judge	Title	Appointed by	Status
Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers	Judge	Barack Obama	Active
Richard G. Seeborg	Judge	Barack Obama	Active
Jon Steven Tigar	Judge	Barack Obama	Active
James Donato	Judge	Barack Obama	Active
Beth Labson Freeman	Judge	Barack Obama	Active
Vince Girdhari Chhabria	Judge	Barack Obama	Active
Haywood Stirling Gilliam, Jr.	Judge	Barack Obama	Active
Jacqueline Scott Corley	Judge	Joseph R. Biden	Active
Trina Lynn Thompson	Judge	Joseph R. Biden	Active
Araceli Martinez-Olguin	Judge	Joseph R. Biden	Active
Patrick Casey Pitts	Judge	Joseph R. Biden	Active
Rita Faye Lin	Judge	Joseph R. Biden	Active
Eumi Kim Lee	Judge	Joseph R. Biden	Active
Noël Wise	Judge	Joseph R. Biden	Active
Thelton Eugene Henderson	Judge	Jimmy Carter	Senior status
Saundra Brown Armstrong	Judge	George H.W. Bush	Senior status
Claudia Ann Wilken	Judge	William J. Clinton	Senior status
Maxine M. Chesney	Judge	William J. Clinton	Senior status
Susan Yvonne Illston	Judge	William J. Clinton	Senior status
Charles R. Breyer	Judge	William J. Clinton	Senior status
William Haskell Alsup	Judge	William J. Clinton	Senior status
Phyllis Jean Hamilton	Judge	William J. Clinton	Senior status
Jeffrey Steven White	Judge	George W. Bush	Senior status
Edward John Davila	Judge	Barack Obama	Senior status
Edward Milton Chen	Judge	Barack Obama	Senior status
William Horsley Orrick, III	Judge	Barack Obama	Senior status

From the Federal Judicial Center’s directory as of Nov. 4, 2026. This is a plain list: the full page could not be shown.