Marsha S. Berzon
| Marsha Berzon | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | |
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Assumed office March 16, 2000 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | John Noonan |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
April 17, 1945 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education |
Harvard University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (JD) |
Marsha Siegel Berzon (born April 17, 1945) is a federal appeals judge who has served on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2000.
Marsha Siegel Berzon graduated with a B.A. from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1966 and received a J.D. degree 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 U.S. Supreme Court. She was Justice Brennan's first female law clerk.
Berzon is the mother of Alexandra Berzon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Las Vegas Sun.
Berzon was in private practice in Washington, DC 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.
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