Marsha Berzon
| Marsha Siegel Berzon | |
|---|---|
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | |
|
Assumed office March 16, 2000 |
|
| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | John T. Noonan, Jr. |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
April 17, 1945 Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Education |
Radcliffe College B.A. UC Berkeley School of Law J.D. |
Marsha Siegel Berzon (born April 17, 1945) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Berzon graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1966 and received a Juris Doctor from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley in 1973. While at law school, Berzon was a contributor to the California Law Review. She then clerked for Judge James R. Browning of the Ninth Circuit from 1973 to 1974. Berzon then clerked for Associate Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court. She was Justice Brennan's first female law clerk.
Berzon was in private practice in Washington, D.C. from 1975 to 1977 and then moved to San Francisco, California where she practiced from 1978 to 2000 at Altshuler Berzon, a union-side law firm founded by herself, her husband Stephen Berzon, and Fred Altshuler. Berzon had a unique Supreme Court litigation practice and litigated many of the landmark cases during that period. Berzon was also a lecturer at UC Berkeley in 1992 and a practitioner-in-residence at Cornell Law School in 1994.
...
Wikipedia