Jon Tigar | |
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Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California | |
Assumed office January 18, 2013 | |
Appointed by | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Saundra Brown Armstrong |
Personal details | |
Born | Jon Steven Tigar 1962 (age 61–62) London,United Kingdom |
Education | Williams College (BA) University of California,Berkeley (JD) |
Jon Steven Tigar (born 1962) is an American lawyer serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He was previously a California state court judge on the Alameda County Superior Court from 2002 to 2013.
Tigar was born in 1962 in London. [1] He graduated from Williams College in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and English literature. [2] He spent two years working as a paralegal,first at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles,and then at the law firm known as Allen Matkins. Tigar then attended the UC Berkeley School of Law,where he was an articles editor of the California Law Review and a research assistant to professor Melvin Eisenberg.[ citation needed ] He graduated in 1989 with a Juris Doctor degree [2] and Order of the Coif honors. [1]
After graduating from law school,Tigar served as a law clerk for Judge Robert Smith Vance of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from 1989 to 1990. [2] [3] During Tigar's clerkship,Vance was killed by a mail bomb sent to his home. [4]
From 1990 until 1992,Tigar served as a litigation associate for the law firm Morrison &Foerster. He then served as a public defender in San Francisco from 1993 until 1994. Tigar practiced complex commercial litigation,and became a partner,at the law firm Keker &Van Nest from 1994 until 2002. From 2002 to 2013,Tigar served as a judge on the Alameda County Superior Court. [2]
Tigar is an elected member of the American Law Institute,for which he served as an adviser to the Restatement (Third) of Torts:Liability for Economic Loss and now serves in the same capacity on the forthcoming Restatement (Third) of Torts:Defamation and Privacy. [3] [5] Tigar has taught Pretrial Litigation at UC Berkeley School of Law. He previously served as a member of the California Judicial Council's Advisory Committee on Civil Jury Instructions and the Ninth Circuit's Jury Instructions Committee. From 2016 to 2019,he was the Judicial Representative to the Section of Antitrust Law of the American Bar Association. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
On June 11,2012,President Barack Obama nominated Tigar to be a judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California,taking the seat vacated by Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong,who assumed senior status on March 23,2012. [2] The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on his nomination on July 11,2012,and reported his nomination to the floor on August 2,2012. The Senate confirmed his nomination by unanimous consent on December 21,2012. He received his commission on January 18,2013. [3]
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