Résumé - Judge You

=== Résumé - Judge You === HON. YOULEE YIM YOU United States Magistrate Judge APPOINTED: EDUCATION: BAR ADMISSIONS: PRIOR EXPERIENCE: March 1, 2016 University of Washington, JD, 1989 Wellesley College, BA, Economics and Urban Planning, 1986 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984-85 Oregon (1989) New York (1996) California (1998) United States District Court, District of Oregon United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit Judge You served as a state circuit court judge in Multnomah County (Portland, Oregon) for almost 10 years before appointment as a federal magistrate judge in 2016. In total, Judge You has over 15 years of judicial experience presiding over jury trials and all phases of litigation in a wide variety of civil cases. Additionally, she has mediated a broad range of civil cases, from employment to personal injury to national class action lawsuits. Judge You currently sits on the national Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and served for five years on the Ninth Circuit’s Trial Improvement Committee.

Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge You was a litigator and appellate attorney in the public sector. She prosecuted complex felony cases and served as a deputy bureau chief in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York. She also served as a staff attorney for the United States District Court for the Central District of California (Los Angeles) and as a senior assistant attorney general and public defender in Oregon. Judge You has received a number of awards, including the Oregon State Bar’s Award for Judicial Excellence, Multnomah Bar Association’s Award of Merit, and National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s Trailblazer Award.

She is a frequent speaker at CLEs and other legal events, and is a former board member of the Oregon Women Lawyers Association.