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Noël Wise
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Active service.
Confirmed 50 to 47Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Joseph R. Biden
- Nominated
- June 13, 2024
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- July 10, 2024
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), August 1, 2024
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 50 to 47
- Confirmed
- December 11, 2024
- Commissioned
- December 19, 2024
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1968, 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. Harry Lee Anstead, Florida District Court of Appeal, Fourth District, 1993-1994
- Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1994-2002
- Honors trial attorney, Environmental Enforcement Section, 1994-1997
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of California (on detail), 1997-1998
- Trial attorney, Environmental Crimes Section, 1998-1999
- Trial attorney, Environmental Enforcement Section, 1999-2002
- Associate professor, George Washington University Law School, 1995-1997
- Adjunct professor, Semester in Washington Program, Vermont Law School, 1997-1998
- Adjunct professor, Golden Gate University School of Law, 2000-2001
- Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2000-2006
- Teaching fellow, Stanford Law School, 2001-2002
- Private practice, San Francisco, California, 2002-2004
- In-house counsel, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, California, 2004-2006; acting director and manager of Renewable Power Generation, 2005-2006
- Private practice, Alameda, California, 2006-2014
- Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Alameda, 2014-2024
- Judge, Family Law Division, 2014-2016
- Assistant supervising judge, Family Law Division, 2017
- Panel judge, Appellate Division, 2018-2019
- Judge and acting supervising judge, Civil Division, 2018-2021
- Supervising judge, Appellate Division, 2019-2021
- Judge pro tem, California Court of Appeal, Second District, 2021-2022
- Judge, Civil Division, 2023
- Supervising judge, Civil Complex Litigation, 2023-2024
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