Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley speaks at a candid Federal Bar Association event highlighting some judges and court procedures.
The Biden White House on Wednesday unveiled its latest round of judicial nominations, including three more picks for California courts.
President Joe Biden tapped Jacqueline Scott Corley for a district judgeship on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Corley has been a magistrate judge on the court since 2011, Corley was previously a partner at the San Francisco law firm of Kerr & Wagstaffe, which focuses on civil litigation. She was a career law clerk for U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer at the Northern District of California for more than a decade and was a litigation associate at the firms of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy and Bass and Goodwin Procter. Corley graduated from Harvard Law School and clerked for U.S. District Judge Robert Keeton of Massachusetts.
