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Vince Girdhari Chhabria

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Active service.

Confirmed 58 to 41Confirmed from the official record
Appointed by
Barack Obama
Nominated
January 6, 2014
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
Not published yet
Committee action
Reported (favorably), January 16, 2014
Senate vote
Recorded vote, 58 to 41
Confirmed
March 5, 2014
Commissioned
March 7, 2014
American Bar Association rating
Well Qualified

Born 1969, 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

  • Staff member, U.S. Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey of California, 1992-1995; campaign field coordinator, Petaluma, California, 1992; legislative assistant, Washington, D.C., 1993-1994, 1995; deputy campaign manager, Petaluma, California, 1994
  • Law clerk, Hon. Charles R. Breyer, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1998-1999
  • Law clerk, Hon. James R. Browning, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1999-2000
  • Private practice, San Francisco, California, 2001, 2002-2004
  • Law clerk, Hon. Stephen G. Breyer, Supreme Court of the United States, 2001-2002
  • Deputy city attorney for government litigation, San Francisco, California, 2005-2014; co-chief of appellate litigation, 2011-2014

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