Irma Elsa Gonzalez, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Irma Elsa Gonzalez

United States District Judge

Date of Birth: 29-Mar-1948

Place of Birth: Palo Alto, California, United States

Profession: judge, lawyer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Irma Elsa Gonzalez (born March 29, 1948) is a retired United States federal judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, who was the first Mexican-American female federal judge.
She is married to former federal prosecutor and trial attorney Robert S.
Brewer Jr.
who is currently serving as the U.S.
Attorney for Southern California. She was an assistant U.S.
Attorney of Criminal Division, U.S.
Attorney's Office, District of Arizona from 1975 to 1979.
She was a Trial attorney of U.S.
Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Los Angeles, California in 1979.
She was an assistant U.S.
Attorney of Criminal Division, U.S.
Attorney's Office, Central District of California from 1979 to 1981.
She was in private practice of law in San Diego, California from 1981 to 1984.
She was a judge on the California Superior Court, San Diego County from 1991 to 1992. Gonzalez was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
Gonzalez was nominated by President George H.W.
Bush on April 9, 1992, to a seat vacated by J.
Lawrence Irving.
She was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 11, 1992, and received commission on August 12, 1992.
Served as chief judge, 2005-present.