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Judge Delbert Gee

Delbert Gee is a retired Alameda County Superior Court Judge who served for 20 years until 2022, presiding over both civil and criminal cases.

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He began his legal career in 1980 as a Deputy District Attorney in Ventura County where he tried 33 jury trials to verdict, and then spent the next 20 years in private practice as a civil litigator in San Francisco.

He received his law degree from the Santa Clara University School of Law where he was an associate editor of the Law Review, and his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Davis.

Judge Gee was born and raised in Alameda County by immigrant parents and was a first generation college student.

Judicial Career

The Honorable Delbert C. Gee is a retired Judge of the Superior Court of California (United States) for the County of Alameda, and served from his appointment in 2002 by the Governor of the State of California until his retirement in 2022. [1] [2]

Judge Gee presided primarily over a civil direct calendar and trial court, and a criminal felony and misdemeanor calendar and trial court, during his 20 year judicial career. He also presided over a probate, conservatorship, and guardianship court, collaborative and drug courts, and a juvenile dependency and delinquency court. [3]

He was the last judge to preside over criminal cases in the Alameda courthouse, and he presided over two civil jury trials conducted entirely by video during the COVID-19 pandemic. [4] He was a member of the court's executive committee, and was the supervising judge of the court's probate department and of the Alameda courthouse.

In 2002, he was honored by the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, [5] and was presented in 2010 with the Judicial Distinguished Service Award by the Alameda County Bar Association [6] and a resolution in his honor by the California State Assembly. [7]

Judge Gee became a member of the State Bar of California in May 1980 and began his legal career as a Deputy District Attorney in Ventura County where he personally tried 33 jury trials to verdict as the county's first Asian American prosecutor, and then spent the next 20 years in San Francisco, first as an associate with Hassard, Bonnington, Rogers & Huber and with Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, and later as a partner with Sturgeon, Keller, Phillips, Gee & O'Leary PC and as a founding partner of the Pacific West Law Group LLP, specializing in health and liability insurance litigation, medical malpractice litigation, and health care law. [1] [8]

Education

He graduated from the University of California, Davis with a bachelor of arts degree in political science in 1977 [1] where he was a Congressional intern in Washington, D.C. in 1976, and was co-chair of the campus Media Board, and from the Santa Clara University School of Law in December 1979 [9] where he was an associate editor of the Santa Clara Law Review and clerked for the Criminal Division of the office of the U.S. Attorney in San Jose.

Background

Judge Gee was a first generation college student who was born and raised in Alameda County by immigrant parents who never had an opportunity to attend college, [10] and has been active for decades in numerous professional, civic and service organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Governor Names Three to Courts in Northern California".
  2. "Governor Newsom Announces Judicial Appointments 8.8.22". gov.ca.gov. 9 August 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  3. "Home | Superior Court of California | County of Alameda". www.alameda.courts.ca.gov.
  4. "Love Thy Lawyer".
  5. "Asian American Bar Association". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
  6. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. "Asian Americans scarce on California courts". 30 January 2011. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012.
  8. Hon Delbert Gee Louis Goodman ACBA Podcast on YouTube
  9. "Santa Clara Law - Class Notes - Alumni". Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  10. "Immigrant Voices: Discover Immigrant Stories from Angel Island". AIISFIV.org.

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