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Delbert Gee is a retired Alameda County Superior Court Judge who served for 20 years until 2022, presiding over both civil and criminal cases.

He began his legal career in 1980 as a Deputy District Attorney in Ventura County where he tried 33 jury trials to verdict, and then spent the next 20 years in private practice as a civil litigator in San Francisco.

Judicial Career

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Gee presided primarily over a civil direct calendar and trial court, and a criminal felony and misdemeanor calendar and trial court, during his 20 year judicial career. [1][2] He also presided over a probate, conservatorship, and guardianship court, collaborative and drug courts, and a juvenile dependency and delinquency court.[3]

He was the last judge to preside over criminal cases in the Alameda courthouse, and he presided over two civil jury trials conducted entirely by video during the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] He was a member of the court's executive committee, and was the supervising judge of the court's probate department and of the Alameda courthouse.[5]

In 2002, he was honored by the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA),[6] and was presented in 2010 with the Judicial Distinguished Service Award by the Alameda County Bar Association[7] and a resolution in his honor by the California State Assembly.[8]

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Gee became a member of the State Bar of California[9] in May 1980 and began his legal career as a Deputy District Attorney in Ventura County where he tried 33 jury trials to verdict as the county's first Asian-Pacific Islander American prosecutor.[10]

He then spent the next 20 years in San Francisco as a civil litigator, first as an associate with Hassard, Bonnington, Rogers & Huber and then with Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, and later as a partner with Sturgeon, Keller, Phillips, Gee & O'Leary PC and then as a founding partner of the Pacific West Law Group LLP.[11]

He specialized in the fields of health and liability insurance litigation, medical malpractice litigation, and health care law,[1][12] is an experienced mediator,[13] and was co-author of a chapter on legal responsibilities in a medical textbook on outpatient anesthesia.[14]

Education

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Gee graduated from the University of California, Davis[15] with a bachelor of arts degree in political science in 1977[1] where he was a Congressional intern in Washington, D.C. during the Bicentennial summer of 1976, and was co-chair of the campus Media Board.[16]

He then graduated from the Santa Clara University School of Law[17] in December 1979[18] where he was an associate editor of the Santa Clara Law Review,[19] and clerked for the Criminal Division of the office of the U.S. Attorney in San Jose.[20]

Background

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Gee was a first generation college student who was born and raised in Alameda County by immigrant parents who never had an opportunity to attend college,[21] and has been active for decades in numerous professional, civic and service organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

He continues to be a sustaining member of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area[22] where he founded the annual AABA Judges Scholarship[23] and is a member of their Judicial Pathways to the Bench mentorship program,[24][25] a life member of the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association,[26] and was a former board member of the Alameda County Bar Association.[27]

He is also a member of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation,[28][29] and a life member of the Wa Sung Community Service Club[30] in Oakland Chinatown and the Martin C. Kauffman 100 Club of Alameda County.[31]

He was previously a board member of Alameda Youth Basketball,[32] the Amelia Earhart Elementary School PTA,[33] and the Alameda Free Library Foundation,[34] and was previously a member of the California Judges Association,[35] the Rotary Club of Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco[36] where he was a Paul Harris Fellow, the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce,[37] and the California District Attorneys Association,[38] and was a charter member of the health law committee[39] of the State Bar of California in 2002.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c "Governor Names Three to Courts in Northern California".
  2. ^ "Governor Newsom Announces Judicial Appointments 8.8.22". gov.ca.gov. 9 August 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  3. ^ "Home | Superior Court of California | County of Alameda". www.alameda.courts.ca.gov.
  4. ^ "Love Thy Lawyer".
  5. ^ "Home | Superior Court of California | County of Alameda". www.alameda.courts.ca.gov.
  6. ^ "Asian American Bar Association". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
  7. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ Gee, Delbert (30 January 2011). "Asian Americans scarce on California courts". SFGATE. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012.
  9. ^ https://www.calbar.ca.gov/
  10. ^ "Ventura County District Attorney – Fiat Justitia ~ Let Justice be Done". 1 April 2025.
  11. ^ "San Francisco Health Care Professional Lawyers | Marin County Medical Board Defense Attorney | Bay Area Physician Representation". www.pacificwestlaw.com.
  12. ^ Hon Delbert Gee Louis Goodman ACBA Podcast on YouTube
  13. ^ "AHLA - Mediation".
  14. ^ White, Paul F. (1997). Ambulatory Anesthesia & Surgery. London, U. K.: W. B. Saunders Company Ltd. p. 682. ISBN 0-7020-1799-X.
  15. ^ https://www.ucdavis.edu/
  16. ^ "UC Davis". www.ucdavis.edu. 25 March 2025.
  17. ^ https://law.scu.edu/
  18. ^ "Santa Clara Law - Class Notes - Alumni". Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  19. ^ "Santa Clara Law Review | Journals | Santa Clara Law".
  20. ^ "Santa Clara Law - Lawyers Who Lead". Santa Clara Law.
  21. ^ "Immigrant Voices: Discover Immigrant Stories from Angel Island". AIISFIV.org. 4 December 2015.
  22. ^ "AABA". www.aaba-bay.com.
  23. ^ "AABA". www.aaba-bay.com.
  24. ^ "AABA".
  25. ^ "Delbert Gee".
  26. ^ "Home | CAPAJA California Asian - Pacific American Judges Association". CAPAJA.
  27. ^ "Alameda County Bar Association » Promoting Justice Since 1877". Alameda County Bar Association.
  28. ^ "Angel Island Immigration Station - San Francisco". AIISF.
  29. ^ https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Real-story-behind-Angel-Island-17150401.php
  30. ^ https://www.wasung.org/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  31. ^ "The Martin C. Kauffman 100 Club of Alameda County - Home". www.100clubalamedacounty.org.
  32. ^ Basketball, Alameda Youth. "Alameda Youth Basketball". Alameda Youth Basketball.
  33. ^ "Homepage". Earhart School PTA.
  34. ^ "Friends of the Alameda Library". Friends of the Alameda Free Library.
  35. ^ "CalJudges.org". caljudges.org.
  36. ^ "Home Page | Rotary Club of Fisherman's Wharf-San Francisco". portal.clubrunner.ca.
  37. ^ https://oaklandchinatownchamber.org
  38. ^ cdaa.org
  39. ^ "Our Sections". California Lawyers Association.
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