{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=6e7bbe25-80fa-4fb5-b127-5635cd41d8c9", "Feinstein Announces Confirmation of Haywood Gilliam as District Judge", "2014-12-16", "2014", "2014-12", "Democrat", "House", "CA", "Dianne Feinstein", "F000062", "www.feinstein.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington\u2014Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today announced the confirmation of Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., to be a U.S. district judge for the Northern District of California.\r\n\r\nGilliam was nominated on August 18, 2014, by President Obama on the recommendation of Senator Feinstein. He received the highest rating of \u201cwell qualified\u201d from a substantial majority of the American Bar Association\u2019s review committee.\r\n\r\n\u201cHaywood Gilliam has an outstanding record as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District and a private practitioner,\u201d said Senator Feinstein. \u201cHe began his career as a law clerk to Judge Thelton Henderson on this same court, and I am confident he will serve the Northern District with great distinction for many years to come.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe Northern District, which frequently hears major technology cases, has a substantial caseload. According to the Judicial Conference of the United States, the court has averaged 632 weighted filings per judgeship over the past four years, which is 20 percent above the average caseload and well above the threshold for a \u201cjudicial emergency.\u201d Criminal felony cases take 47 percent longer to complete than the national average, and civil cases take 19 percent longer than the national average to go to trial.\r\n\r\nBackground on Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr.\r\n\r\nHaywood S. Gilliam, Jr., graduated magna cum laude from Yale in 1991 and earned his law degree from Stanford Law School in 1994. He was an article editor for the Stanford Law Review.\r\n\r\nHe clerked for U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson in the Northern District of California from 1994 to 1995.\r\n\r\nFrom 1996 to 1999, he was an associate at the law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown, & Enersen.\r\n\r\nFrom 1999 through 2006, he served as an assistant United States attorney in the Northern District of California, including as chief of the securities fraud section from 2005 to 2006.\r\n\r\nIn 2006, he rejoined his prior law firm, then called Bingham McCutchen, as a partner. In 2009, he became a partner at Covington & Burling, where he is vice-chair of the firm\u2019s white collar defense & investigations practice group.\r\n\r\nHe has been active in the Bay Area legal community, serving on the district court\u2019s merit selection panel for magistrate judges, the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors, and the board of the Bar Association of San Francisco. He has also been a lawyer representative to the Ninth Circuit\u2019s Judicial Conference.\r\n\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=6e7bbe25-80fa-4fb5-b127-5635cd41d8c9"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5588870737701654, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}