| Charles R. Breyer | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office November 12, 1997 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | D. Lowell Jensen |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1941 San Francisco, California |
| Alma mater | Harvard College (A.B.) Boalt Hall School of Law (J.D.) |
Charles R. Breyer (born 1941) is a United States federal judge.
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Born in San Francisco, California, Breyer received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1963 and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1966. He was a law clerk to Oliver Carter of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California from 1966 to 1967. He was a Counsel, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, California in 1967, and was then an assistant district attorney for the City & County of San Francisco, California from 1967 to 1973.
Breyer was an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force from 1973 to 1974, and then entered private practice in San Francisco, California from 1974 to 1979 to 1997, interrupted by a brief stint as chief assistant district attorney of the City and County of San Francisco, California in 1979.
On July 24, 1997, Breyer was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California vacated by D. Lowell Jensen. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 8, 1997, and received his commission on November 12, 1997.
Breyer presided over the Ed Rosenthal trial in 2007, in Rosenthal's federal prosecution for distribution of marijuana for medical use. He also presided over the stock-options backdating trial of Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes in 2007.
Breyer is the brother of U.S. Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer.[1] Justice Breyer has recused himself from appeals of cases tried by his brother: Olympic Airways v. Husain, Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Rucker, United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers’ Co-op, and Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farm.[2][3]