COURT: NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
AGE: 56
CONFIRMED: DECEMBER 2009
APPOINTED BY: OBAMA
Since Judge Richard Seeborg took charge of his San Francisco courtroom in January 2010, he’s had a docket as eclectic as California. Earlier this year he presided over a relatively rare federal murder trial for Christopher Bryan “Stoney” Ablett, a member of the Modesto chapter of the Mongols motorcycle gang, who was accused of stabbing and shooting Mark “Papa” Guardado, the president of the San Francisco chapter of the Hells Angels. A jury found Ablett guilty in May, and Seeborg sentenced him to life in prison.
