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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.