Charles Breyer | |
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Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission | |
Acting | |
Assumed office December 2018 | |
President | Donald Trump Joe Biden |
Preceded by | William H. Pryor Jr. |
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California | |
Assumed office December 31, 2011 | |
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California | |
In office November 12, 1997 – December 31, 2011 | |
Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | D. Lowell Jensen |
Succeeded by | William Orrick III |
Personal details | |
Born | Charles Roberts Breyer November 3, 1941 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Relatives | Stephen Breyer (brother) |
Education | Harvard University (AB) University of California, Berkeley (JD) |
Charles Roberts Breyer (born November 3, 1941) is an American attorney and jurist. He is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He was nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton. He is the brother of Associate Justice Stephen Breyer.[1]