Jesus Gilberto Bernal (born November 1963) is a
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Biography
Bernal received his
Bachelor of Arts degree, ''
cum laude
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'', from
Yale University in 1986. He received his
Juris Doctor
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from
Stanford Law School in 1989. He served as a
law clerk
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to Judge
David Vreeland Kenyon
David Vreeland Kenyon (September 10, 1930 – March 31, 2015) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Education and career
Born in San Marino, California, Kenyon received a B ...
of the
United States District Court for the Central District of California from 1989 to 1991. He worked as a litigation
associate at the law firm of Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe LLP in Los Angeles from 1991 to 1996, where he focused on complex civil litigation. Since 1996 he has been a Deputy Federal Public Defender in the Central District of California, serving at the Los Angeles office from 1996 to 2006 and serving as a Directing Attorney at the Riverside office from 2006 to 2012.
Federal judicial service
On April 25, 2012, President
Barack Obama nominated Bernal to be a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Central District of California, to the seat vacated by Judge
Stephen G. Larson
Stephen Gerard Larson (born October 26, 1964) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California and a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Larson LLP, which he co-founded in 2016 ...
.
[ The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on his nomination on June 6, 2012 and reported his nomination to the floor on July 12, 2012.]
See also
*List of Hispanic/Latino American jurists
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1963 births
Living people
21st-century American judges
American judges of Mexican descent
American lawyers of Mexican descent
Judges of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Hispanic and Latino American judges
Mexican emigrants to the United States
Public defenders
Stanford Law School alumni
United States district court judges appointed by Barack Obama
Yale College alumni