Jeremy Don Fogel was born on September 17,1949 and is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
19 Facts About Jeremy Fogel
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Jeremy Fogel was a judge for the municipal court and superior court of Santa Clara County, California from 1981 to 1998.
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Jeremy Fogel served as Director of the Federal Judicial Center from 2011 to 2018.
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Jeremy Fogel entered private practice in San Jose, California until 1978.
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Jeremy Fogel was a lecturer in human development at San Jose State University from 1977 to 1978 and member of the Santa Clara County Bar Association from 1978 to 1981.
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Jeremy Fogel was appointed by Democratic governor Jerry Brown as a judge on the Santa Clara County Municipal Court from 1981 to 1986.
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In 1997, Jeremy Fogel heard a case challenging Measure B, a ballot initiative for a public transportation sales tax passed by 52 percent of voters.
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Jeremy Fogel dismissed the lawsuit on April 3,1997, two days after it opened.
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Jeremy Fogel was nominated by President Bill Clinton on September 8,1997, to the seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California that had been vacated by Robert Aguilar.
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Jeremy Fogel was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 16,1998, and received his commission on March 17,1998.
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Jeremy Fogel retired from active service on September 14,2018.
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Jeremy Fogel has presided over federal criminal cases, including trials for perjury and fraud.
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On January 8,2010, Jeremy Fogel sentenced two people to federal prison for defrauding 24 Hour Fitness; one of the convicted, Susan Powell, served as a vice president of that company.
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On July 22,2010, Jeremy Fogel sentenced Seth Sundberg, the branch manager of a mortgage and financial business, to 71 months in prison and $2.4 million in restitution for obtaining a $5 million tax refund from the Internal Revenue Service fraudulently.
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Judge Jeremy Fogel sentenced NASA Ames Research Center contractor Ernst John Rohde to a five-year term for possessing child pornography on his government computer; two other Ames employees had been convicted of the same offense previously.
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On October 29,2009, Jeremy Fogel awarded the Palo Alto, California-based social networking website Facebook $711 million in damages in a civil suit that Facebook filed against online marketer Sanford Wallace, whom Facebook accused of using the website to send spam to and steal personal information from website users.
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Under the same painful death criteria, Jeremy Fogel issued a stay of execution for Albert Greenwood Brown on September 28,2010, two days before Brown was scheduled to be executed.
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On September 17,2018, Jeremy Fogel became the first Executive Director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute, a center at Berkeley Law School whose mission is to build bridges between judges and academics and to promote an ethical, resilient and independent judiciary.
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Jeremy Fogel married preschool teacher Kathleen Aim Wilcox and lives in Los Altos, California; their son Nate Wilcox-Jeremy Fogel attended the Menlo School and Stanford University and played on the football teams of both schools.