Aaron Persky

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Born	Michael Aaron Persky 1962 (age 54–55) Berkeley, California
Alma mater	Stanford University University of California, Berkeley
Occupation	Judge

Michael Aaron Persky is an American judge sitting on the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. Prior to joining the bench, he practiced civil litigation for five years and was a prosecutor in Santa Clara County for six years.

Michael Aaron Persky was born in 1962. His father, Michael Persky, was a psychiatrist of Jewish descent. His mother, Susan Elder, was a French teacher. His paternal grandparents owned a poultry business. He grew up in San Francisco, California.

Persky graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in international relations. He was the captain of the Stanford men's lacrosse team, a club sport. He received a master's degree in international policy studies from Stanford in 1985.

He graduated from the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 1990 and was admitted to the bar in California in the same year. After college, he played for the Berkeley club lacrosse team, for which he was also a captain.

Persky worked for the law firm of Morrison & Foerster, practicing corporate civil litigation. While in private practice, he received the California Association of Human Relations Organizations' Civil Rights Leadership Award for work on hate crimes, and the State Bar of California's Wiley Manuel Pro Bono Award for his pro bono work for the poor.

In 1997, Persky joined the Santa Clara District Attorney's Office. In this position, he prosecuted criminal offenses which included violent sex crimes and hate crimes. He served on the executive committee of the Support Network for Battered Women and the Santa Clara County Network for a Hate-Free Community.

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