Thomas Hixson

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Thomas Hixson
U.S. Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Assumed office
September 4, 2018[1]
Preceded byMaria-Elena James[2][3]
Personal details
Alma materHarvard University (B.A.)
Harvard Law School (J.D.)

Thomas S. Hixson is currently a U.S. Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Education[]

Judge Hixson earned his undergraduate and law degrees, both magna cum laude from Harvard University and Harvard Law School, respectively.[4][5]

Career[]

Upon graduating law school, Judge Hixson served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable A. Wallace Tashima, U.S. Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[4][5]

From 1998-2002, Judge Hixson was an Associate with the law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen LLP.[5][4] From 2002-2014, he worked with the firm of Bingham McCutchen LLP (which McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, LLP eventually became) as an Associate and then Partner.[5][4] From 2014-2018, he was a Partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.[5][4] At those law firms, Judge Hixson's practice encompassed complex litigation in federal and state courts in fields that included intellectual property, antitrust and unfair competition, water management, energy regulation and telecommunications.[5][4] Specifically, at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Judge Hixson was a Partner in the Intellectual Property — Disputes practice that focused on federal computer software-related IP cases, while his practice continued to include general complex litigation matters, including state and federal antitrust and unfair competition cases.[5]

Judge Hixson also served as a past chair of the California State Bar Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section (now the Antitrust, UCL and Privacy Section of the California Lawyers Association) from 2009-2010, having positions of leadership within the Section since 2005.[4][5] He has also contributed to the Section's treatise, California State Antitrust & Unfair Competition Law, published by Matthew Bender by writing, since 2012, the annual update to the treatise's chapter on the Consumers Legal Remedies Act.[4][5] His pro bono work while in private practice included serving as counsel in a complex challenge to telecommunications marketing practices before the California Public Utilities Commission and assisting tenants facing eviction via the San Francisco Superior Court's Housing Negotiation Project.[4][5] He also served on the Board of Directors of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel.[4][5]

Judicial service[]

On September 4, 2018, Judge Hixson was appointed as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of California.[1] He filled the magistrate judgeship left open by retiring U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James.[5][2][3]


He is in charge of the Judgement of Extradition of the expresident of Peru, Alejandro Toledo

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References[]

  1. ^ a b U.S. Courts, Judicial Milestones, Thomas S. Hixson, https://www.uscourts.gov/judicial-milestones/thomas-s-hixson
  2. ^ a b Caroline Spiezio, The Recorder, Morgan Lewis Partner Thomas Hixson Selected for San Francisco Magistrate Position, https://www.law.com/therecorder/sites/therecorder/2018/02/05/morgan-lewis-partner-thomas-hixson-selected-for-san-francisco-magistrate-position/
  3. ^ a b ALM Media, Morgan Lewis Partner Thomas Hixson Selected for San Francisco Magistrate Position, https://finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-lewis-partner-thomas-hixson-100451475.html
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Thomas S. Hixson, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/tsh
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Court Selects Civil Litigator Thomas S. Hixson for San Francisco Magistrate Judgeship, https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/news/224
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