Haywood Stirling Gilliam Jr.

Haywood Gilliam


Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Incumbent
Assumed office December 19, 2014
Appointed by	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Claudia Wilken
Personal details
Born	1969 (age 46–47) Marlborough, Massachusetts, U.S.
Residence	Oakland, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Yale University (B.A.) Stanford Law School (J.D.)

Haywood Stirling Gilliam Jr. (born 1969) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Biography

Gilliam was born in 1969, in Marlborough, Massachusetts.^[1] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in 1991, from Yale University. He received a Juris Doctor in 1994 from Stanford Law School. He served as a law clerk to Judge Thelton Henderson of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, from 1994 to 1995. He worked at the law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen from 1995 to 1998. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of California, from 1999 to 2006, serving as Chief of the Securities Fraud Section, from 2004 to 2006. He was a partner at the law firm of Bingham McCutchen, from 2006 to 2009. From 2009 to 2014, he was a partner at Covington & Burling, where he serves as the Vice-Chair of the firm's White Collar Defense and Investigations practice group.^[2]

Federal judicial service

On September 8, 2014, President Obama nominated Gilliam to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, to the seat being vacated by Judge Claudia Ann Wilken, who is taking senior status in December 2014.^[3]^[4] He received a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on September 17, 2014.^[5] On November 20, 2014 his nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote.^[6] On Saturday, December 13, 2014 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a motion to invoke cloture on the nomination. On December 16, 2014, Reid withdrew his cloture motion on Gilliam Jr.'s nomination, and the Senate proceeded to vote to confirm Gilliam Jr. in a voice vote. He received his federal judicial commission on December 19, 2014.^[7]

References

External links

Haywood Stirling Gilliam Jr. at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by Claudia Wilken	Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California 2014–present	Incumbent

Current active district judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

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