Jacqueline Scott Corley
U.S. district Judge
Jacqueline Scott Corley (née Jacqueline Marie Scott, born 1966) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She served as a United States Magistrate Judge of the same court from 2011 to 2022.
Education
Corley graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with an undergraduate degree in 1988, and, in 1991, graduated with her Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was also an editor and articles chair on the Harvard Law Review.
Career
Upon graduation from law school, Corley served as a law clerk for Judge Robert Keeton of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1992.
She then practiced with the law firm of Goodwin Procter in Boston, focusing on white collar criminal defense as well as complex commercial civil litigation from 1992 to 1994. Corley then worked as a litigation associate at the firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP in San Francisco from 1994 to 1997.
From 1998 to 2009, Corley served as the permanent law clerk to Judge Charles Breyer of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She also served on the Northern District of California Alternative Dispute Resolution mediation and early neutral evaluation panels from 2006 to 2007 though her appointment in 2011.
From 2009 to 2011, Corley was a partner at the law firm of Kerr & Wagstaffe in San Francisco, where she had a focus on federal practice as a civil litigator. At Kerr & Wagstaffe, Corley represented government entities, individuals and institutions as plaintiffs and defendants in various cases involving patent, copyright law, trademark, defamation, constitutional law, malicious prosecution, class action, contract, and probate legal issues.
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