Jesus Gilberto Bernal

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American judge (born 1963)

Jesus Gilberto Bernal (born November 1963) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California .

Biography

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Bernal received his Bachelor of Arts degree, _cum laude _, from Yale University in 1986. He received his Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 1989. He served as a law clerk to Judge David Vreeland Kenyon of the United States District Court for the Central District of California from 1989 to 1991. He worked as a litigation associate at the law firm of Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe LLP in Los Angeles from 1991 to 1996, where he focused on complex civil litigation . From 1996 to 2012, he was a deputy federal public defender in the Central District of California, serving at the Los Angeles office from 1996 to 2006 and serving as a directing attorney at the Riverside office from 2006 to 2012.

Federal judicial service

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On April 25, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Bernal to be a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Central District of California, to the seat vacated by Judge Stephen G. Larson . The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on his nomination on June 6, 2012, and reported his nomination to the floor on July 12, 2012. The Senate confirmed Bernal in a voice vote on December 11, 2012. He received his judicial commission on December 12, 2012.