Draft:Noël Wise
Noël Wise | |
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Judge of the Alameda County Superior Court | |
Assumed office 2014 | |
Appointed by | Jerry Brown |
Preceded by | Carrie McIntyre Panetta |
Personal details | |
Born | Noël Streissguth 1968 (age 55–56) Cherry Hill, New Jersey, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic[1] |
Education | University of Nevada, Las Vegas (BA) Nova Southeastern University Law School (JD) Stanford University (JSM) |
Noël Wise (born 1968)[2] is an American lawyer who has served as a judge of the Alameda County Superior Court since 2014. She is a nominee to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.[3]
Education
[edit]Wise earned a Bachelor of Science from University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1989, a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude from Nova Southeastern University Law School in 1993 and a Juris Scientiae Magister from Stanford Law School in 2002.[3]
Career
[edit]Wise served as a law clerk for Justice Harry Lee Anstead on the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeals from 1993 to 1994. She served as a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division in Washington, D.C. from 1994 to 2002, where she entered through the Honors Program. From 1997 to 1998, she was detailed to serve as an assistant United States attorney in the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California. From 2002 to 2004, Wise was of counsel at Stoel Rives in San Francisco. From 2004 to 2006, she worked as in-house counsel for Pacific Gas and Electric Company in San Francisco from 2004 to 2006. From 2006 to 2014, she was a partner at Wise Gleicher in Alameda, California.[3] On November 12, 2014, Governor Jerry Brown appointed Wise to serve as a judge of the Alameda County Superior Court to fill the vacancy left by the appointment of Judge Carrie McIntyre Panetta to a different court.[1] Wise has been a supervising judge since 2019. From 2021 to 2022, she served as a judge pro tem for the California Second District Court of Appeal.[3]
Nomination to district court
[edit]On June 12, 2024, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Wise to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. On June 13, 2024, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Wise to the seat being vacated by Judge Edward Davila, who announced his intent to assume senior status upon confirmation of a successor.[4] On July 10, 2024, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[5] During her confirmation hearing, she was questioned by Republican senators over several magazine articles she had written while serving as a judge. In a 2017 article for Time magazine, Wise wrote "that biological sex — from the moment of conception — looks like an intricate continuum and less like two tidy boxes" and that "This understanding makes it virtually impossible for judges to consistently apply a law that permits or prohibits conduct based on whether someone is a man or a woman." In a 2020 article for The Atlantic, Wise criticized former president Donald Trump, arguing that the federal judges he appointed were not diverse enough.[6][7] On August 1, 2024, her nomination was reported out of committee by an 11–9 vote.[8] Her nomination is pending before the United States Senate.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Governor Brown Appoints Two to Alameda County Superior Court". ca.gov. November 12, 2014.
- ^ "Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
- ^ a b c d "President Biden Names Fifty-First Round of Judicial Nominees" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. June 12, 2024. Retrieved June 12, 2024.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Nominations Sent to the Senate" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. June 13, 2024.
- ^ "Nominations". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. July 9, 2024.
- ^ Weiss, Benjamin S. "Federal court nominee faces partisan grilling over magazine articles on gender". Courthouse News. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ Anderson, Craig (July 10, 2024). "Federal judge nominee sharply questioned over past writings". www.dailyjournal.com. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ "Results of Executive Business Meeting – August 1, 2024" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
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