Vaughn Walker
| Vaughn Walker | |
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| Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California | |
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In office October 30, 2004 – December 31, 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Marilyn Patel |
| Succeeded by | James Ware |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California | |
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In office November 27, 1989 – February 28, 2011 |
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| Appointed by | George H. W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Spencer Williams |
| Succeeded by | Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers |
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Vaughn Richard Walker 1944 (age 72–73) Watseka, Illinois, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Stanford University |
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Vaughn Richard Walker (born 1944) served as a district judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 1989 to 2011. Walker presided over the original trial in Hollingsworth v. Perry, where he found California's Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional.
Vaughn Walker was born in Watseka, Illinois, in 1944. He graduated from the University of Michigan (1966) and Stanford Law School (1970). During 1966–67, he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
After clerking for United States District Court for the Central District of California Judge Robert J. Kelleher (1971–72), he practiced in San Francisco at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro.
Walker was originally nominated to the bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. However, this nomination stalled in the Senate Judiciary Committee because of controversy over his representation of the United States Olympic Committee in a lawsuit that prohibited the use of the title "Gay Olympics". Two dozen House Democrats, led by Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, opposed his nomination because of his perceived insensitivity to gays and the poor.
On September 7, 1989, Walker was re-nominated by President George H. W. Bush to the seat on the federal district court vacated by Spencer M. Williams. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 21, 1989, on unanimous consent and received his commission on November 27, 1989.
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