Jeffrey White

Judge Jeffrey S. White is a United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division.  Before his appointment to the bench 2003, Judge White was a partner and chair of the Litigation Department of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, in San Francisco, California. 

Before joining Orrick, Judge White was a Senior Trial Attorney at the United States Department of Justice Public Integrity Section. Previous to his stint at the DOJ, Judge White was an assistant United States Attorney. 

Judge White has been a lecturer in civil trial advocacy at the University of California at Berkeley,  School of Law for the past 27 years.  Judge White received the Roscoe Pound Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy.

As a trial attorney, Judge White  tried well over 100 jury cases to verdict.

He received his J.D. at State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law in 1970, magna cum laude. HE was the Articles Editor of the Buffalo Law Review. He received his under graduate degree at Queens College of the City University of New York