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Edward Milton Chen

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Senior Born 1953, Oakland, CA

Appointment

Court
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Title
Judge
Appointed by
Barack ObamaDemocratic president
Seat
CAND1205
Nominated
Jan. 5, 2011
Committee action
Reported (favorably)March 17, 2011
Senate vote
56–42Roll Call
Confirmed
May 10, 2011
Commissioned
May 12, 2011
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Senior status
May 17, 2022

Source Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Judges. Party shown is the party of the appointing president, which is a fact about the president, not about the judge.

Recent judicial activity

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Cases

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Judicial writings

No writings are attributed to this judge in the ingested records.

Source Authorship is recorded only where the source data carries it. For recent Courts of Appeals opinions CourtListener frequently publishes the decision as a single document without naming the authoring judge, so an absence here means the attribution is unavailable upstream — not that the judge has written nothing.