Delbert Gee

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Judge Delbert C. Gee is a Judge of the Superior Court for the State of California in Alameda County. He has been the Supervising Judge of the George E. McDonald Hall of Justice in Alameda, California, and assigned to its criminal court and civil case management since 2006. He is on the Court's executive committee, and also serves on the Court's criminal, court security, and library committees. He was previously assigned to the criminal courts and civil case management at the Wiley W. Manuel Hall of Justice in Oakland, California, and to the juvenile dependency and delinquency court at the Hayward Hall of Justice in Hayward, California. Judge Gee was appointed to the Superior Court by Governor Gray Davis and took the oath of office on November 1, 2002.

He obtained his bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Davis in 1977 and his juris doctor degree from Santa Clara University School of Law in Santa Clara, California in December 1979 where he was an associate editor of the Santa Clara Law Review.

He began his legal career as a Deputy District Attorney for the County of Ventura in Ventura, California in 1980. He was an associate with Hassard, Bonnington, Rogers and Huber and with Bronson, Bronson and McKinnon in San Francisco, California from 1982 to 1989 before becoming a shareholder with Sturgeon, Keller, Phillips, Gee and O'Leary, PC in San Francisco, California in 1989. In 2000, he was a founding partner of the Pacific West Law Group, LLP in San Francisco, California. While in private practice, he specialized in health care and in insurance coverage litigation, and was counsel of record in the following appellate opinions: Simon v. Value Behavioral Health, Inc. (9th Cir. 2000) 208 F.3d 1073; Williams v. California Physicians' Service (1999) 72 Cal.App.4th 722; Hartenstine v. Superior Court (1987) 196 Cal.App.3d 206; Anaya v. Superior Court (1984) 160 Cal.App.3d 228; Francois v. Raybestos-Manhattan Inc. (N.D.1983) 577 F.Supp. 434.

Judge Gee is one of five Asian American Superior Court judges in Alameda County. He is a member of the California Judges Association, the California Asian American Judges Association, the Alameda County Bar Association, and the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area. He is also a member of the faculty of the Trial Skills Workshop at Stanford Law School and the University of San Francisco School of Law.

While an attorney, he was a charter member of the Health Law Committee of the Business Law Section for the State Bar of California, member of the California Society of Healthcare Attorneys, on the boards of the California Academy of Family Practice Foundation and the Alameda County Bar Association, chair of the Medical-Legal Committee of the Alameda County Bar Association, and a mediator and arbitrator with the American Health Lawyers Association and the Early Settlement Program of the Bar Association of San Francisco. He also lectured on developments in tort litigation and on health law issues for the University of California/State Bar of California Continuing Education of the Bar, the University of California, San Francisco Center for the Health Professions, and the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, and has written on liability issues for anesthesiologists.

Judge Gee is on the board of Alameda Youth Basketball in Alameda, California, and is a member of the Wa Sung Community Service Club, the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, and the Chinese American Citizens Allliance in Oakland, California, and the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation.

He was previously on the boards of the Alameda Free Library Foundation and the Amelia Earhart Elementary School PTA in Alameda, California, and a member and Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary Club of Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California.

The son of Chinese immigrant parents, Judge Gee was born in Oakland, California and is a 1973 graduate of Livermore High School in Livermore, California. He is married and has two children.