Alameda County (Oakland)
Career Highlights: Appointed U.S. district judge, Northern District of California by President Joe Biden, 2022; judge, Alameda County Superior Court, 2003-22; juvenile court commissioner, Alameda County Superior Court, 2001-02; private practice, Oakland and San Jose, 1991-2000; assistant public defender, Alameda County Public Defender's Office, 1987-91; postgraduate law clerk, Alameda County Public Defender's Office, 1986-1987
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law, 1986
Career Highlights: Appointed U.S. district judge, Northern District of California by President Joe Biden, 2022; judge, Alameda County Superior Court, 2003-22; juvenile court commissioner, Alameda County Superior Court, 2001-02; private practice, Oakland and San Jose, 1991-2000; assistant public defender, Alameda County Public Defender's Office, 1987-91; postgraduate law clerk, Alameda County Public Defender's Office, 1986-1987
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law, 1986
By Laura Hautala
Daily Journal Staff Writer
OAKLAND - Trina Thompson likes to send signals in her courtroom. On a day that she was working through some 30 hearings on the status of convicted criminals' restitution payments, she wore a red fish-patterned scarf.
"If I can teach them to fish... " she explained later in her chambers, saying the scarf was meant to encourage people on probation to become self-sufficient.
She also has four... (continued)
