HONORABLE CLAUDIA WILKEN
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
1301 Clay St., Courtroom 2
4th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 637-3542
EDUCATION
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, BA
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (BERKELEY), BOALT HALL SCHOOL OF LAW,
JD
LEGAL EXPERIENCE
US DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 1993
- present
Judge Oakland, CA
US DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 1983
- 1993
Magistrate Judge Oakland, CA
WILKEN & LEVERETT 1978 - 1984
Partner
FEDERAL DEFENDER’S OFFICE FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF
CA 1975 - 1978
Staff Attorney
RELATED EXPERIENCE
BAR MEMBERSHIPS: Alameda County Bar Association; American Bar
Association (Judicial Administration Division); California State
Bar Association.
PUBLICATIONS: Author, “Dodging Bullets: How to Avoid Discovery
Sanctions in Federal Court,” Litigation, Fall 1989; author,
“Expanding the Use of Magistrate Judges,” ABTL Report,
November 1994
TEACHING: Lecturer, Criminal Trial Practice, Boalt Hall Law School,
University of California at Berkeley (1978-84); Professor, Criminal
Procedure, New College School of Law, San Francisco, California.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Member, Judicial Branch Committee of
the Judicial Conference of the United States; member, Automation
Committee, Judges Committee, Magistrate Judges Committee, and
Death Penalty Committee for the Northern District of California;
board member and secretary, Federal Magistrate Judges Association;
chair, Ninth Circuit Magistrates Conference; Magistrate Judge,
Ninth Circuit Judicial Council.
ISDLS PARTICIPATION: Delegate Bolivia, Palestinian Territories,
Egypt.
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