Robert Francis Peckham (November 3, 1920 – February 16, 1993) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Robert Francis Peckham
California Northern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Born 1920 in San Francisco, CA
Died 1993 in Palo Alto, CA
FJC ID: 1859
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 4/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 44/year
California Northern District Court · 1966–1993
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
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 1987–1990
- Superior Court of California, County of Santa ClaraJudge · 1959–1966
- ↳presiding judge · 1961–1963, 1965–1966
- Private practice, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale, California1946–1948, 1953–1959
Northern District of CaliforniaAssistant U.S. attorney · 1948–1953- ↳chief assistant, Criminal Division · 1952–1953
Appointments
1966–1993 · Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- Yale University
LL.B. · 1945- Stanford UniversityA.B. · 1941