Confirmed

Noël Wise

U.S District Court for the Northern District of California

NominatedJune 12, 2024

ConfirmedDecember 11, 2024

Judge Noël Wise was confirmed to the U.S District Court for the Northern District of California on December 11, 2024. Previously, she was a judge on the Superior Court of California in Alameda County since 2014, and a supervising judge since 2019. Before that, she was a partner at Wise Gleicher in Alameda, California from 2006 to 2014. Prior to that, she was in-house counsel for Pacific Gas and Electric Company in San Francisco. From from 1994 to 2002, Judge Wise served as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental and Natural Resources Division in Washington, D.C.  She received her J.S.M. from Stanford Law School in 2002; her J.D., cum laude, from Nova Southeastern University Law School in 1993; and her B.S. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in 1989.