Charles R. Breyer
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| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California | |
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Assumed office December 31, 2011 |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California | |
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In office November 12, 1997 – December 31, 2011 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | D. Lowell Jensen |
| Succeeded by | William Orrick III |
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Charles R. Breyer 1941 (age 75–76) San Francisco, California |
| Relations | Justice Stephen Breyer (brother) |
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Harvard University A.B. UC Berkeley School of Law J.D. |
Charles R. Breyer (born 1941) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Born in San Francisco, California, Breyer received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Harvard College in 1963 and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1966. He was a law clerk to Judge Oliver Carter of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 1966 to 1967. He was a Counsel, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco in 1967, and was then an assistant district attorney for the City & County of San Francisco, California from 1967 to 1973.
Breyer was an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force from 1973 to 1974, and then entered private practice in San Francisco from 1974 to 1997, interrupted by a brief stint as chief assistant district attorney of the City and County of San Francisco in 1979.
On July 24, 1997, Breyer was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California vacated by D. Lowell Jensen. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 8, 1997, and received his commission on November 12, 1997. He took senior status on December 31, 2011. He served as a Member of the United States Judicial Conference from 2006 to 2010. He has served as a Member of the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation since 2011. He served as Vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2013 to 2016 and as a Member of the same commission since 2017.
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