San Francisco County
Career Highlights: 1967-2025<br /><br /> Appointed to the San Francisco Superior Court Bench, September 2009; Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California, 2003-2009; Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco, 1997-2003; law clerk to the Honorable Sarah Evans Barker, United States District Judge, Southern District of Indiana; associate, Pillsbury Madison & Sutro; associate, Steinhart & Falconer; Adjunct Law Professor of Trial Advocacy, UC Law San Francisco; lecturer in legal writing, Boalt Hall School of Law, 1996-1997
Law School: Yale Law School
Career Highlights: 1967-2025<br /><br /> Appointed to the San Francisco Superior Court Bench, September 2009; Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California, 2003-2009; Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco, 1997-2003; law clerk to the Honorable Sarah Evans Barker, United States District Judge, Southern District of Indiana; associate, Pillsbury Madison & Sutro; associate, Steinhart & Falconer; Adjunct Law Professor of Trial Advocacy, UC Law San Francisco; lecturer in legal writing, Boalt Hall School of Law, 1996-1997
Law School: Yale Law School
By Laura Ernde
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Andrew Y.S. Cheng remembers the moment he was confronted with sending a criminal defendant to jail for the first time.
The defendant was facing up to six years in prison for selling cocaine when Cheng accepted the jury's guilty verdict and remanded the tearful defendant into custody.
"That was an extremely grim moment," Cheng said. "The... (continued)
