Biography
P. Casey Pitts has served as a district judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California since July 2023. He sits in the Court’s San José courthouse. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute. Before taking the bench, Judge Pitts was a partner at Altshuler Berzon LLP, a public interest law firm in San Francisco where his practice focused on representing workers, labor unions, consumers, public entities, and public interest organizations in complex impact and appellate litigation. Judge Pitts is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, where he was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and a Coker Fellow in constitutional law. After law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He was the first out LGBTQ+ district judge nominee to the Northern District of California. He grew up in Fargo, North Dakota.
