
Career Highlights: Appointed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by President George W. Bush, 2003; judge, San Francisco County Superior Court, , 1990-2003; principal, Carlos Bea Law Corporation, San Francisco, 1975-90; associate and partner, Dunne, Dunne & Phelps, San Francisco 1959-75.
Law School: Stanford Law School, 1958
SAN FRANCISCO — He’s the “Most Interesting Man on the 9th Circuit.” At least that’s what law clerks working at the court’s headquarters call Judge Carlos T. Bea in a nod to the famous Dos Equis beer advertising campaign.
Bea’s nickname isn’t too much in the way of hyperbole.
Escaping the violence of the Spanish Civil War, Bea and his family came to the United States when the future Arti... (continued)