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SAN FRANCISCO - To hear U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James tell it, those in her job are the most impartial and conflict-free of all the federal judiciary.

Maria-Elen James

U.S. District Court (San Francisco)

Career Highlights: Retired September 2018. Appointed U.S. magistrate judge by the Northern District judges, 1994; chief magistrate judge, 2009-12; family law commissioner, San Francisco County Superior Court, 1989-94; civil discovery and civil law and motion commissioner, San Francisco County Superior Court, 1988-89; attorney, San Francisco city attorney's office, 1984-88; staff attorney, National Labor Relations Board, 1983-84; deputy public defender, San Francisco County, 1979-83; director, Small Claims Court Education Project, San Francisco city attorney's office, 1978-79

Law School: U of San Francisco School of Law

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By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
      SAN FRANCISCO - To hear U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James tell it, those in her job are the most impartial and conflict-free of all the federal judiciary.
      The life-tenured district judges who hire magistrates like James are appointed, often after party-line bickering, by the president with Congress' advice and consent.

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