Katherine Feinstein


Katherine Feinstein is an American judge who served as presiding judge on the San Francisco Superior Court and.

Biography

Katherine Anne Feinstein is the only child of United States Senator Dianne Feinstein and Judge Jack K. Berman. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Hastings Law School. After working as a law clerk for the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, she served as a prosecutor and worked as a lawyer representing police officers accused of wrongdoing. She then took a job with the San Francisco city attorney's office where she represented children in abuse and custody cases. In 2000, California Governor Gray Davis appointed her to the San Francisco Superior Court. In 2012, she announced her retirement from the judgeship; Judge Cynthia Ming-mei Lee replaced her as presiding judge. During her career, Feinstein founded several initiatives including Squires, a "scared straight" program that matched juvenile delinquents with convicts serving life sentences at San Quentin State Prison; and a program that jailed drunks who skip their court dates unless they enter a treatment program.
In 2016, she was named by California Governor Jerry Brown to the Medical Board of California. Later in 2016, she was once again named presiding judge of the San Francisco Superior Court. The court is composed of 52 judges and twelve commissioners.

Personal life

She is married to Rick Mariano; they have one daughter, Eileen Feinstein Mariano. Eileen Feinstein was chosen as an Electoral College member for the 2016 United States presidential election.