Vaughn Walker

Vaughn Walker
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
In office October 30, 2004 – December 31, 2010
Preceded by	Marilyn Hall Patel
Succeeded by	James Ware
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
In office November 27, 1989 – February 28, 2011
Appointed by	George H. W. Bush
Preceded by	Spencer Mortimer Williams
Succeeded by	Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers
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Born	Vaughn Richard Walker[1] 1944 (age 79–80) Watseka, Illinois, U.S.
Education	University of Michigan (BA) Stanford University (JD)
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Vaughn Richard Walker (born 1944) is an American lawyer who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 1989 to 2011. Walker presided over the original trial in Hollingsworth v. Perry, where he found California's Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional.