About District Judge Jon S. Tigar
Judge Jon S. Tigar has served as a District Judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California since January 2013. He previously served as a Judge of the Alameda County Superior Court for eleven years, where he handled a wide variety of civil and criminal cases and was the Presiding Judge of the court's Appellate Division. Judge Tigar is a member of the American Law Institute, where he serves as an Adviser to the forthcoming Restatement (Third) of Torts: Defamation and Privacy; he previously served as an Adviser to the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Liability for Economic Harm. He has previously served on both the Ninth Circuit Jury Instructions Committee and the California Judicial Council's Advisory Committee on Civil Jury Instructions. From 2016-19, he was the Judicial Representative to the ABA Section of Antitrust. He also served as co-chair of the ABA Section of Litigation's Federal Practice Task Force. Since 2017, he has been the Co-Chair of the Federal Judicial Center/ABA Antitrust Section Judicial Antitrust Education Program. He previously taught Pretrial Litigation at Berkeley Law School. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Before taking the bench, Judge Tigar practiced complex commercial litigation at Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco; as a trial lawyer in the San Francisco Public Defender's Office; and in the litigation department of Morrison & Foerster. He clerked for Judge Robert S. Vance of the United Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, in Birmingham, Alabama. Judge Tigar graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law (now Berkeley Law School), where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and an Articles Editor of the California Law Review. He has a bachelor's degree in Economics and English from Williams College.