Santa Clara County (San Jose)
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Santa Clara County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, February 2017; partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC, 2008-2016; counsel, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld LLP, 2007-2008; assistant U.S. attorney, U.S. attorney's office, District of Minnesota, 2002-2007; associate, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld LLP, 1997-2002
Law School: University of Michigan School of Law, 1997
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Santa Clara County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, February 2017; partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC, 2008-2016; counsel, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld LLP, 2007-2008; assistant U.S. attorney, U.S. attorney's office, District of Minnesota, 2002-2007; associate, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld LLP, 1997-2002
Law School: University of Michigan School of Law, 1997
SAN JOSE — Judge Elizabeth Peterson remembers riding the horses on her family’s farm growing up.
The Midwestern native fondly recalled memories of home in Fairmont, a small, rural town in Minnesota right next to the Iowa border.
But Peterson, now on the Santa Clara County Superior Court, said she could feel there was more to the world — more places to see, people to meet and things to... (continued)
