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Charles R. Breyer
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California · 1997
Charles R. Breyer , Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Charles Roberts Breyer (born November 3, 1941) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Breyer served as chairman of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2018 to 2022.
Education
- Harvard CollegeA.B., 1963
- University of California, Berkeley, School of LawJ.D., 1966
Career
Law clerk, Hon. Oliver Carter, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1966-1967; Counsel, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco [California], 1967; Assistant district attorney, City and County of San Francisco, California, 1967-1973, 1979; chief assistant, 1979; Assistant special prosecutor, Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 1973-1974; Private practice, San Francisco, California, 1974-1979, 1980-1997; Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 2006-2010; Member, U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, 2011-2018; Commissioner, U.S. Sentencing Commission, 2013-2022; vice chair, 2013-2017; acting chair, 2021-2022
Biography
Charles Roberts Breyer (born November 3, 1941) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Breyer served as chairman of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2018 to 2022.
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