It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following concern:
If you can address this concern by improving, copyediting, sourcing, renaming, or merging the page, please edit this page and do so. You may remove this message if you improve the article or otherwise object to deletion for any reason. Although not required, you are encouraged to explain why you object to the deletion, either in your edit summary or on the talk page. If this template is removed, do not replace it . The article may be deleted if this message remains in place for seven days, i.e., after 03:47, 31 May 2023 (UTC). Find sources: "Laurel Beeler" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR |
Laurel Beeler | |
---|---|
Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California | |
Assumed office January 4, 2010 | |
Preceded by | Wayne Brazil |
Personal details | |
Alma mater | Bowdoin College (AB) University of Washington (JD) |
Laurel Beeler is a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Judge Beeler received an A.B. degree,with honors,from Bowdoin College and graduated,with honors,from University of Washington School of Law with a Juris Doctor degree,where she was Order of the Coif and an Articles Editor on the Washington Law Review. [1] [2] [3]
After graduation from law school,Beeler served as a Staff Attorney (1989-1990) and Civil Appeals Division Chief (1990-1992) at the Office of Staff Attorneys for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. [4] From 1992-1994,Beeler served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Cecil F. Poole,U.S. Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. [1] [4] Upon completing her clerkship,Beeler then joined the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California as an Assistant U.S. Attorney,where she worked for 14 years from 1995 to 2009. [1] [4] At the U.S. Attorney's Office,Beeler held leadership positions such as the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division,Major Crimes Supervisor,and Professional Responsibility Officer. [1] [2] [4]
On January 4,2010,Beeler was appointed as a U.S. magistrate judge for the Northern District of California. [2] She replaced the seat vacated by retiring U.S. Magistrate Judge Wayne Brazil. [5] [6] Beeler is a member of the Ninth Circuit Magistrate Judge Executive Board and the Ninth Circuit Criminal Case Committee. [1] [7] Beeler is also currently one of the four national judicial liaisons to the U.S. Department of Justice/Office of Defender Services Joint Electronic Technology Working Group. [1] [7] Beeler additionally chairs the Northern District of California’s Criminal Practice Committee and has implemented the Northern District’s reentry and diversion courts. [1] [7] She has also trained as a mediator with the Northern District’s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Program,the Federal Judicial Center,and Harvard Law School. [1] [7]
Beeler has also previously served as President of the Federal Bar Association,the Co-chair of the Lawyer Representatives to the Ninth Circuit,a Board Member of the Bar Association of San Francisco (“BASF”),and as a member of the Ninth Circuit’s Jury Trial Improvement Committee. [1] [7] She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Edward J. McFetridge American Inn of Court. [1] [7]
She has also taught Civil Trial Practice at the University of California Berkeley School of Law and Criminal Procedure at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. [1] [7] Beeler has also led rule-of-law projects in Indonesia,Vietnam,Cambodia,the Philippines,Jordan,Ukraine,Turkey,and Thailand. [1] [7]
In 2006,Beeler received the Northern District of California Judicial Conference’s Public Service Award. [1] [7] In 2012,she was also named one of The Recorder’s Women Leaders in Law. [1] [7] She additionally received BASF’s Barristers Choice Award in 2015 and the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association’s magistrate judge of the Year award in 2018. [1]
On September 20,2020,Judge Beeler granted a motion for an injunction temporarily halting President Trump’s Executive Order banning the operation of Chinese social media application WeChat,citing potential First Amendment harms and the elimination of a major means of communication used by the Chinese American community as reasons for ruling so in the Order. [8]
The United States district courts are the trial courts of the U.S. federal judiciary. There is one district court for each federal judicial district,which each cover one U.S. state or,in some cases,a portion of a state. Each district court has at least one courthouse,and many districts have more than one. District courts' decisions are appealed to the U.S. court of appeals for the circuit in which they reside,except for certain specialized cases that are appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit or directly to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Irma Elsa Gonzalez is a retired United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California,who was the first Mexican-American female federal judge. She is married to former federal prosecutor and trial attorney Robert S. Brewer Jr. who served as the U.S. attorney for Southern California from 2019 to 2021.
Julie Elizabeth Carnes is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Jacqueline Hong-Ngoc Nguyen is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She previously served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California from 2009 to 2012 and as a California superior court judge from 2002 to 2009.
Edward Milton Chen is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and former United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Lucy Haeran Koh is an American lawyer serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is the first Korean American woman to serve on a federal appellate court in the United States. Koh previously served as a U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California from 2010 to 2021. She also served as a California state court judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court from 2008 to 2010.
Robin Stacie Rosenbaum is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit since 2014. She previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida from 2012 to 2014.
Fernando Manzano Olguin is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
John Byron Owens is an American judge and lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Cheryl Ann Krause is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Paul Singh Grewal is an American attorney working as chief legal officer at Coinbase. Previously,Grewal was vice president and deputy general counsel at Facebook,and is also a former U.S. magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Bridget Anne Shelton Bade is an American lawyer and jurist from Arizona. She is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She was formerly a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
Nathanael Cousins is a U.S. magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Joseph C. Spero is currently the chief U.S. magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Sallie Kim is currently a U.S. magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Elizabeth D. Laporte is a former United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She retired from the court on October 25,2019. She previously served as the chief U.S. magistrate judge for the district from 2013 to 2015.
Stephanie Dawkins Davis is an American attorney who is serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She previously served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and a former United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Steve Kim is a United States magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Central District of California who is a former nominee to be a United States district judge of the same court.
Candace Rae Jackson-Akiwumi is an American attorney serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since July 2021. She was previously a staff attorney at the federal defender program in the Northern District of Illinois from 2010 to 2020 and a partner at Zuckerman Spaeder in Washington,D.C.,from 2020 to 2021.
Doris Lenea Pryor is an American lawyer who is serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She served as a United States magistrate judge for the Southern District of Indiana from 2018 to 2022.