Delbert Gee

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The Honorable Delbert C. Gee is a judge of the Superior Court of California (USA) in Alameda County. He has been the supervising judge of the George E. McDonald Hall of Justice in Alameda, California since 2006 and assigned to its criminal felony and misdemeanor court, and presides over civil settlement conferences and case management matters as well. He is on the Court's executive committee, and also serves on the Court's criminal, bench/bar, alternative dispute resolution, library, and court security committees. He was previously assigned to the criminal and drug courts and also presided over civil case management matters 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.

Judge Gee is a member of the California Judges Association, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association, the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, the Judicial Council of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and the Alameda County Bar Association where he is co-chair of the East Bay Diversity Bar Coalition. He is also an instructor with the annual Intensive Advocacy Program at the University of San Francisco School of Law and the annual Advocacy Skills Workshop at Stanford Law School. He was the trial judge in In re Bartholomew D. (2005) 131 Cal.App.4th 317. Judge Gee is one of five Asian American Superior Court judges in Alameda County.

He began his legal career as a Deputy District Attorney prosecuting criminal cases for the Ventura County District Attorney's office 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 in San Francisco, California. While in private practice, he specialized in health care law 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. He became a member of the State Bar of California in May 1980 and was admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, and Central Districts of California, and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

While an attorney, he was a charter member of the Health Law committee of the Business Law section for the State Bar of California, a member of the California Society of Healthcare Attorneys, on the board of directors for the California Academy of Family Physicians Foundation and for the Alameda County Bar Association where he was a member of the Law Day committee and chair of the Inter-professional committee with the Alameda-Contra Costa Medical Association, and was a mediator and arbitrator with the American Health Lawyers Association and with 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/Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, and has written on liability issues for anesthesiologists.

He obtained 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, and clerked for the U.S. Attorney's office, Criminal Division, in San Jose, California. He obtained his bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Davis in 1977 where he was a Congressional intern for Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA) in Washington, D.C., chair of the campus Media Board, and a member of Chi Phi.

Judge Gee is on the board of directors for 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 Alliance in Oakland, California, the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, the 100 Club of Alameda County, the Alameda Education Foundation, the Asian Pacific American Democratic Caucus of Alameda County, and the Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Association, and is a life member of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association.

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

The son of Chinese immigrant parents who never had the opportunity to go to college, Judge Gee was born and raised in Alameda County and was a 1973 graduate of Livermore High School in Livermore, California. He is married and has two children.