Senate Confirms Jesus G. Bernal as U.S. District Judge

On December 11, 2012, the United States Senate confirmed President Barack Obama’s nomination of Jesus G. Bernal to serve as a federal district judge for the United States District Court for the Central District of California.  Bernal, who was nominated by President Obama on April 25, 2012, will preside over matters in Riverside in the Court’s Eastern Division.

Bernal has worked in the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Central District of California since 1996.  From 1996 to 2006 he was a Deputy Federal Public Defender in the trial unit of the Los Angeles office, and from 2006 to May 2012 he served as the Directing Attorney of the Riverside branch office.

Read the entire article here.