Paul watford biography



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    Paul J. Watford

    American judge (born 1967)

    Paul Jeffrey Watford (born August 25, 1967)[1] is an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2012 to 2023.[2] In 2016, The New York Times identified Watford as a potential Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia.[3][4] Watford resigned his judgeship in 2023 and became a partner at the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

    Early life and education

    Watford was born in 1967 in Garden Grove, California. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts. He worked as a legal interviewer for the San Francisco Bar Association's lawyer referral service from 1989 to 1991, then attended the UCLA School of Law, where he was an editor of the UCLA Law Review.

    He graduated in 1994 with a Juris Doctor and Order of the Coif membership.[5]