6th District Court of Appeal (San Jose)
Career Highlights: Appointed to the 6th District Court of Appeal by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2018; judge, Santa Clara County Superior Court, 2012-18; U.S. attorney's office, Northern District of California, 2007-12; Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., 2009-10; professor, Vanderbilt University Law School, 2001-07; visiting professor, Harvard Law School and UCLA School of Law, 2006; lecturer, Stanford Law School, 2021, 2014-16, 2000; law clerk, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, 1998-99; law clerk, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge John T. Noonan Jr., 1997-98
Law School: Stanford Law School, 1997
Career Highlights: Appointed to the 6th District Court of Appeal by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2018; judge, Santa Clara County Superior Court, 2012-18; U.S. attorney's office, Northern District of California, 2007-12; Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., 2009-10; professor, Vanderbilt University Law School, 2001-07; visiting professor, Harvard Law School and UCLA School of Law, 2006; lecturer, Stanford Law School, 2021, 2014-16, 2000; law clerk, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, 1998-99; law clerk, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge John T. Noonan Jr., 1997-98
Law School: Stanford Law School, 1997
SAN JOSE — Justice Allison M. Danner acknowledges she often knows little about many of the cases she decides on the 6th District Court of Appeal. But she’s used to getting up to speed on unfamiliar topics.
It’s the same curiosity, and confidence in her core legal skills, that led her to the classroom as a professor a few years out of law school, teaching about United Nations criminal tribunals and the international justic... (continued)
