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Rita Faye Lin
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Active service.
Confirmed 52 to 45Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Joseph R. Biden
- Nominated
- January 23, 2023
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- Not published yet
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), February 9, 2023
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 52 to 45
- Confirmed
- September 19, 2023
- Commissioned
- October 4, 2023
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1978, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it.
Source: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges · This judge’s entry. Our copy saved October 16, 2026, fingerprint 92b677f26553b479.
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Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- Law clerk, Hon. Sandra Lynch, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 2003-2004
- Private practice, San Francisco, California, 2004-2014
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Northern District of California, 2014-2018
- Judge, Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, 2018-2023
- Adjunct professor, University of California Hastings College of the Law (now University of California College of the Law), 2021
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