The Hon. A. Marisa Chun is a judge for the San Francisco County Superior Court in California. She was appointed to the bench by Governor Gavin Newsom on July 9, 2021, filling a vacancy created by the resignation of the Hon. Edward A. Torpoco.
Prior to her appointment, Chun was a partner at Crowell & Moring, a law firm she joined in 2019. Before that, she spent time as a partner at McDermott Will & Emery (2013 to 2019. During her tenure with these firms, she specialized in white collar defense, high-stakes complex civil litigation, and appellate matters.
Chun earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 1987. She then completed a J.D. at Harvard Law School in 1991. As a law student, Chun was the developments editor for the Harvard Law Review.
She is admitted to practice in California (1992), the District of Columbia (1995), the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (1995), the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (1995), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1995), and the United States Supreme Court (1995).
After graduating from law school, Chun began her legal career as a law clerk to the Hon. Robert Boochever of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She served in that capacity until 1992, at which time she became a trial attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice.
Then, in 1999, Chun entered into private practice. She started as an associate at Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, quickly rising through the ranks to become a partner in 2003. She stayed with the firm until 2009, eventually leaving to become a deputy associate attorney general for the United States Department of Justice. In that capacity, she advised leadership on antitrust, intellectual property, health care fraud, telecommunications, and environmental matters.
Her memberships have included the Edward J. McFetridge American Inn of Court and the Korean American Bar Association of Northern California (president). She was also a board member of the Bar Association of San Francisco and a lawyer representative for the Northern District of California to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference.
Chun was a resident of San Francisco, California, at the time of her appointment.
She is registered as a Democrat.