Delbert Gee

Delbert Gee is a retired Alameda County Superior Court Judge who served from 2002 to 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. Gee was a civil litigator for the following 20 years in San Francisco. Gee clerked for attorney Donald B. Ayer in the criminal division of the office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California in San Jose, California. Gee graduated from law school in December 1979.

Legal career Gee became a member of the State Bar of California 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. and health care law.

Judicial career Gee was appointed to the bench in 2002 by Gray Davis, at the time the Governor of the State of California. Gee served as a judge of the Superior Court of California (US) for the County of Alameda, and presided over both a civil direct calendar and a criminal felony and misdemeanor calendar and trial court. He was a member of the court's executive committee, and was the supervising judge of the court's probate division and of the Alameda courthouse. and was presented in 2010 with the Judicial Distinguished Service Award by the Alameda County Bar Association and a resolution in his honor by the California State Assembly.

Personal life Gee's parents immigrated to California, where he attended Livermore High School in Alameda County California. Gee was a first generation college student.

He has been active for decades in numerous professional, civic, and service organizations and continues to be a sustaining member of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA) where he founded the AABA Judges Scholarship.