Susan Illston
| Susan Y. Illston | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California | |
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Assumed office July 1, 2013 |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California | |
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In office May 26, 1995 – July 1, 2013 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Barbara A. Caulfield |
| Succeeded by | Vince Chhabria |
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| Born | 1948 (age 68–69) Tokyo, Japan |
| Alma mater |
Duke University Stanford Law School |
Susan Yvonne Illston (born 1948) is a San Francisco, California-based Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, which lies within the jurisdiction of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Illston was born in Tokyo, Japan, was raised in the military and attended Fort Knox High School. She is a graduate of Duke University (B.A., 1970) and Stanford Law School (J.D., 1973). Prior to her appointment, Illston served in private practice first as an associate, then as a partner at Cotchett, Illston & Pitre in Burlingame, California from 1973 to 1995.
On the recommendations of Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, Illston was nominated by President Bill Clinton on January 23, 1995 and confirmed by the Senate on May 25, 1995 by voice vote, receiving her commission the following day. She took senior status on July 1, 2013.
Sitting by designation of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in 1999 Judge Illston wrote the panel decision in DiLoreto v. Downey Unified School District Board of Education, 196 F.3d 958 (9th Cir. 1999), cert. denied, 529 U.S. 1067 (2000), which held that an athletic fence which a public high school made available for commercial advertising is a nonpublic forum from which religious messages could be excluded without violating the first amendment.
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