Charles Alexander Legge (August 24, 1930 – December 8, 2023) was a
United States district judge of the
.
Education and career
Legge was born in
San Francisco, California, and attended
Piedmont High School. He received an
Artium Baccalaureus
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degree from
Stanford University
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in 1952 and a
Juris Doctor
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and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...
from
Stanford Law School in 1954. He passed the
State Bar of California
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in 1954. He was in the
United States Army from 1954 to 1956, and was then in private practice in San Francisco until 1984.
Federal judicial service
On June 19, 1984, Legge was nominated by President
Ronald Reagan
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to a seat on the
vacated by Judge
Robert Howard Schnacke. Legge was confirmed by the
United States Senate on September 17, 1984, and received his commission on September 18, 1984. Legge served in that capacity until his retirement, on June 30, 2001.
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Post judicial service
Following his retirement from the bench, Legge engaged in the private practice of law, concentrating in the areas of arbitration, mediation and intellectual property. Legge died on December 8, 2023, at the age of 93.
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1930 births
2023 deaths
20th-century American judges
Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
United States district court judges appointed by Ronald Reagan
Stanford Law School alumni
United States Army soldiers
Lawyers from San Francisco