Claudia Ann Wilken (born August 17, 1949) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She was appointed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton. She served as the Northern District of California's chief judge from 2012 to 2014, when she assumed senior status.
Claudia Ann Wilken
California Northern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Born 1949 in Minneapolis, MN
FJC ID: 2579
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 1/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 72/year
California Northern District Court · 1993–2014
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Female
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2016–2019
- New College School of LawProfessor · 1980–1985
- Private practice, Berkeley, California1978–1984
- University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of LawAdjunct professor · 1978–1984
Staff attorney · 1975–1978
Appointments
1993–2014 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)
Education
- University of California, Berkeley, School of LawJ.D. · 1975
- Stanford UniversityB.A. · 1971