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Charles R. Breyer
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Senior status since December 31, 2011.
Confirmed by voice voteConfirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- William J. Clinton
- Nominated
- July 24, 1997
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- October 29, 1997
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), November 6, 1997
- Senate vote
- Voice vote, no count printed
- Confirmed
- November 8, 1997
- Commissioned
- November 12, 1997
- Senior status
- Since December 31, 2011
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1941, 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. Oliver Carter, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1966-1967
- Counsel, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco [California], 1967
- Assistant district attorney, City and County of San Francisco, California, 1967-1973, 1979; chief assistant, 1979
- Assistant special prosecutor, Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 1973-1974
- Private practice, San Francisco, California, 1974-1979, 1980-1997
- Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 2006-2010
- Member, U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, 2011-2018
- Commissioner, U.S. Sentencing Commission, 2013-2022; vice chair, 2013-2017; acting chair, 2021-2022
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