Senior Judge George H. Wu was appointed to the Central District of California by President George W. Bush in 2007. He assumed senior status on November 3, 2023.
Wu was born in New York City in 1950 and is the great-grandson of Wu Tingfang, the first ethnically Chinese barrister in England. He graduated from Pomona College and the University of Chicago Law School, clerked for a Ninth Circuit judge, and briefly taught law at the University of Tennessee. He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District and as a Los Angeles Municipal Court and Superior Court judge before his federal appointment.
Education
- University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1975
- Pomona College, B.A., 1972
Career
- Law clerk, Judge Stanley Barnes, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1976–1977, 1979
- Assistant professor of law, University of Tennessee College of Law, 1979–1982
- Assistant U.S. Attorney, Central District of California, 1982–1989, 1991–1993
- Judge, Los Angeles Municipal Court, 1993–1996
- Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, 1996–2007
- U.S. District Judge, Central District of California, 2007–present (senior status, 2023)