SACRAMENTO — President Barack Obama on Monday announced that he will nominate Covington & Burling partner Haywood Gilliam Jr. to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Gilliam would replace U.S. District Chief Judge Claudia Wilken, who announced in March that she will take senior status by the end of the year. Wilken said then that she was declaring her impending semi-retirement early in hopes that her successor could be named and confirmed by December.
