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Biography
Jacqueline Scott Corley is currently a U.S. Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Education
Judge Corley graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with an undergraduate degree in 1988, and in 1991, graduated with her law degree (or Juris Doctor) magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was also an Editor and Articles Chair on the Harvard Law Review.
Career
Upon graduation from law school, Judge Corley served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Robert E. Keeton, U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
She then practiced with the law firm of Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston focusing on white collar criminal defense as well as complex commercial civil litigation. Judge Corley then worked as a litigation Associate at the firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP in San Francisco.
From 1998 to 2009, Judge Corley served as the Permanent Law Clerk (or Career Clerk) to the Honorable Charles Breyer, U.S. District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She has also served on the Northern District of California Alternative Dispute Resolution mediation and early neutral evaluation panels from 2006 to 2007 though her appointment in 2011.
From 2009 to 2011, Judge Corley was a partner at the law firm of Kerr & Wagstaffe, where she had a focus on federal practice as a civil litigator. At Kerr & Wagstaffe, Judge Corley represented government entities, individuals and institutions as plaintiffs and defendants in various cases involving patent, copyright, trademark, defamation, constitutional law, malicious prosecution, class action, contract and probate legal issues.
Judicial service
On May 18, 2011, Judge Corley was appointed as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of California. She assumed the vacated seat left by then U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward M. Chen, who became a U.S. District Judge in 2011.
Judge Corley also currently serves as the Northern District of California's Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Magistrate Judge, in charge of coordinating the ADR program with the Court.