Consider the Northern District of California President Barack Obama’s bench.

Eleven of the court’s 14 active judge slots are occupied by jurists nominated and confirmed in the past eight years. It’s a group that’s diverse, tech savvy, and young, at least by Article III judge standards. Although the Southern District of New York has more Obama appointees overall—16—the Northern District has the highest concentration of Obama judges of any large urban district in the country. And given their proximity to Silicon Valley, these 11 judges are poised to have an outsized role in the future of the nation’s tech law and policy.

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