Sacramento County Superior Court
Career Highlights: Appointed Sacramento Superior Court judge by Gov. Gavin Newsom, 2022 ; special assistant attorney general, chief of Criminal Division, California Department of Justice, 2018-22, first assistant U.S. attorney, assistant U.S. attorney 2002-17; law clerk, Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton, Northern District of California, 2001-02; associate, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, 1996-2001
Law School: UC Hastings School of Law, 1996
Career Highlights: Appointed Sacramento Superior Court judge by Gov. Gavin Newsom, 2022 ; special assistant attorney general, chief of Criminal Division, California Department of Justice, 2018-22, first assistant U.S. attorney, assistant U.S. attorney 2002-17; law clerk, Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton, Northern District of California, 2001-02; associate, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, 1996-2001
Law School: UC Hastings School of Law, 1996
Attorneys will sometimes say Perry Mason or Ben Matlock inspired them to go into law. Not Philip A. Ferrari.
"It was my Shakespeare professor who suggested that I think about law school," Ferrari said. "I think I was arguing with him."
Ferrari went to UCLA without a clear idea of what he wanted to do with his life. There were no attorneys in his family. He majored in English, wrote for the Daily Bruin student newspaper, and thought for a ... (continued)
