HONORABLE FERN M. SMITH
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
Thurgood Marshall Federal Judicial Building
One Columbus Circle
Washington, DC
20002-8003
EDUCATION
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, BA
STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, JD
LEGAL EXPERIENCE
FEDERAL JUDICIAL CENTER 1999-Present
Director
U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 1988
- Present
Judge San Francisco, CA
SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 1986 - 1988
Judge San Francisco, CA
BRONSON, BRONSON & MCKINNON 1981 - 1986
Partner San Francisco, CA
BRONSON, BRONSON & MCKINNON 1975 - 1981
Associate San Francisco, CA
RELATED EXPERIENCE
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Member, California Judicial Council
(1987-88); Member, California State-Federal Judicial Council (1990-present);
Member, California Judicial Council’s Advisory Task Force
on Gender Bias (1988-90); Chair (1996-99) and Member (1993-96),
Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence; Member, Executive
Committee of the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference (1994-96).
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: American Bar Association (including
its Litigation and Judicial Administration Sections); American
Judicature Society; Association of Business Trial Lawyers; Bar
Association of San Francisco; California Judicial Council’s
Advisory Task Force on gender Bias in the Courts (1987-90); California
State - Federal Judicial Council; California Women Lawyers; Federal
Judges Association; National Association of Women Judges; Ninth
Circuit District Judges Association; Stanford Law School Board
of Visitors; Women’s Forum West/International Women’s
Forum
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES - FACULTY MEMBER/PANELIST: American Bar
Association; American Judicature Society; California Judges Association;
California Women Lawyers; Edward J. McFetredge American Inn of
the Court; Federal Practice Institute - CEB; State Bar of California
- Litigation Section; The Woman Advocate sponsored by the Litigation
Section of the American Bar Association and Prentice Hall Law
& Business.
ISDLS PARTICIPATION: Delegate to Egypt, Jordan, Bolivia, Mexico,
Tunisia, Austria, Israel, Greece, Italy and India.
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