Jacqueline Scott Corley

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Jacqueline Scott Corley
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Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Assumed office
May 18, 2011[1]
Preceded byEdward M. Chen
Personal details
Born
Jacqueline Marie Scott

1966 (age 55–56)
Long Beach, California, U.S.
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
Harvard University (JD)

Jacqueline Scott Corley (born 1966)[2] is a United States Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the same court.

Education[]

Corley graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with an undergraduate degree in 1988, and in 1991, graduated with her Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was also an editor and articles chair on the Harvard Law Review.[3][4]

Career[]

Upon graduation from law school, Corley served as a judicial law clerk for Judge Robert E. Keeton of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.[3][4]

She then practiced with the law firm of Goodwin Procter in Boston focusing on white collar criminal defense as well as complex commercial civil litigation.[3][4] Corley then worked as a litigation associate at the firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP in San Francisco.[3][4]

From 1998 to 2009, Corley served as the permanent law clerk to Judge Charles Breyer of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.[3][4] She has also served on the Northern District of California Alternative Dispute Resolution mediation and early neutral evaluation panels from 2006 to 2007 though her appointment in 2011.[3][4]

From 2009 to 2011, Corley was a partner at the law firm of Kerr & Wagstaffe in San Francisco, where she had a focus on federal practice as a civil litigator.[3][4] At Kerr & Wagstaffe, Corley represented government entities, individuals and institutions as plaintiffs and defendants in various cases involving patent, copyright, trademark, defamation, constitutional law, malicious prosecution, class action, contract and probate legal issues.[3]

Federal judicial service[]

United States magistrate judge tenure[]

On May 18, 2011, Corley was appointed as a United States Magistrate Judge of the Northern District of California. She assumed the vacated seat left by then magistrate judge Edward M. Chen, who was elevated to be a district court judge in 2011.[4] Corley also currently[when?] serves as the Northern District of California's Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Magistrate Judge, in charge of coordinating the ADR program with the Court.[3]

Nomination to district court[]

On November 3, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Corley to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.[5] President Biden nominated Corley to the seat vacated by Judge William Alsup, who took senior status on January 21, 2021.[6] Her nomination is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On December 1, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ Ballotpedia, Jacqueline Scott Corley, https://ballotpedia.org/Jacqueline_Scott_Corley
  2. ^ "Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved November 30, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Jacqueline Scott Corley, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/jsc Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "Court Welcomes New Magistrate Judges Jacqueline Scott Corley & Nathanael Cousins". United States District Court for the Northern District of California. July 5, 2011. Archived from the original on December 30, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2021. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ "President Biden Names Ninth Round of Judicial Nominees" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. November 3, 2021. Retrieved November 3, 2021. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  6. ^ "Nominations Sent to the Senate" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. November 3, 2021. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  7. ^ "Nominations". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. December 1, 2021.

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