San Francisco County
Career Highlights: Nominated for presiding justice by Gov. Gavin Newsom, February 2023, and confirmed April 2023; nominated to Division Four of the 1st Appellate District by Gov. Jerry Brown in November 2018. Appointed by Gov. Brown to the San Francisco County Superior Court in 2013. Spent 11 years in the U.S. Attorney's office for the Northern District of California after 5 years as associate at Cooley. Clerked for Justice M. Margaret McKeown at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law
Career Highlights: Nominated for presiding justice by Gov. Gavin Newsom, February 2023, and confirmed April 2023; nominated to Division Four of the 1st Appellate District by Gov. Jerry Brown in November 2018. Appointed by Gov. Brown to the San Francisco County Superior Court in 2013. Spent 11 years in the U.S. Attorney's office for the Northern District of California after 5 years as associate at Cooley. Clerked for Justice M. Margaret McKeown at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law
By Kevin Lee
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Tracie L. Brown was on maternity leave from her job at the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco when Gov. Jerry Brown's office asked her to come to Sacramento for an interview to serve on the bench.
It was May 2013 and, at the time, Tracie Brown was fully focused on caring for her newborn daughter who had just turned three months of age.
"It was a Thursday, I remember it very... (continued)
