Career Highlights: Appointed U.S. magistrate judge, Northern District of California, 2022; deputy attorney general, California Department of Justice, 2019-22; LGBT program director, California Rural Legal Assistance, 2014-19; associate, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, San Francisco, 2012-14; law clerk to U.S. District Judge Claudia A. Wilken, Northern District of California, 2010-12; law fellow and staff attorney, California Rural Legal Assistance, 2007-10
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO -- Growing up in Monterey County, U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa J. Cisneros recalled a time when her father's friend came to the house one weekend to dig a ditch in the front yard.
Cisneros remembered that the man had one arm and had to hold the shovel unconventionally, "but this man was just digging with my dad. That was the kind of person that my dad was. He made me, and a lot of other people, feel like they could do really great things." <... (continued)
