Career Highlights: Appointed by President Joe Biden, as U.S. district judge, Northern District of California, 2023; staff and supervising attorney, National Immigration Law Center, Oakland, 2018-23; managing attorney, Immigrants' Rights Project, Community Legal Services, East Palo Alto, 2017-18; civil rights attorney, U.S. Department of Education, San Francisco, 2016-17; senior staff attorney, Immigrants' Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union, San Francisco, 2013-15; lecturer, UC Berkeley School of Law, 2012, 2013, 2016; staff attorney, Legal Aid at Work, San Francisco, 2010-13; fellow, staff attorney, Women's Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union, 2006-10; law clerk for U.S. District Judge David Briones, Western District of Texas, 2004-06
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law
During a college philosophy course, a teaching assistant asked now-U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin and her classmates what color a swan is.
"We all looked at him and said, 'A swan is white.' He goes, 'Right, unless you grew up in Australia.' And it was a lovely reminder that, in the end, the only thing people know is their own experience," said Martinez-Olguin, explaining that this principle informs how she presides over cases. &q... (continued)
