Eastern District of California (Sacramento)
Career Highlights: Appointed U.S. magistrate judge, 2018; associate, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, 2012-18; deputy attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice, 2007-12; law clerk to Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert, 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Philadelphia, 2006-07.
Law School: Harvard Law School, 2006
Career Highlights: Appointed U.S. magistrate judge, 2018; associate, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, 2012-18; deputy attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice, 2007-12; law clerk to Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert, 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Philadelphia, 2006-07.
Law School: Harvard Law School, 2006
SACRAMENTO — Yosemite National Park might seem a rather isolated posting to start one’s judicial career. But it’s a metropolis compared to where U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremy D. Peterson spent summers growing up.
That would be Isle Royale, a mostly uninhabited, 206-square-mile island in Lake Superior that holds the distinction of being the least visited national park in the lower forty-eight states. Technically part of Mic... (continued)
