Martin Jenkins

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Judge Martin J. Jenkins (born 1954) is a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. Judge Jenkins was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997. Judge Jenkins attended the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Prior to joining the bench in 1989, Judge Jenkins was a judge in the California state court system. Previously, Judge Jenkins worked as a prosecutor in Alameda County, California for three years, and for the U.S. Department of Justice in the civil rights division for two years, and as in-house counsel for Pacific Bell for four years. Judge Jenkins also briefly played professional football for the Seattle Seahawks.

In 2008, Judge Jenkins announced that he would be leaving the federal bench, having been appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California Court of Appeal.