The Hon. Stanley A. Boone is a magistrate on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. He was appointed to the bench by the judges of the Eastern District of California on December 31, 2012, filling a seat vacated by the retirement of the Hon. Dennis Beck.
Prior to his appointment, Boone was an assistant United States attorney with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California, a position to which he was named in 2010. During his tenure there, he led the White Collar Crime Unit, supervising other assistant United States attorneys in cases involving economic fraud, identity theft, intellectual property, money laundering, and immigration matters. Before that, he performed a brief stint as the white collar crime coordinator with the United States Department of Justice’s Executive Office for United States Attorneys (2009 to 2010).
Boone earned a bachelor’s degree in legal studies and Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988. He spent the next few years working as a senior paralegal specialist with the Office of the United States Trustee before completing a J.D. at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, in 1995.
After graduating from law school, Boone began his legal career as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Peter A. Nowinski, a magistrate with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. He served in that capacity until 1996, at which time he was hired as an assistant United States attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California. In that capacity, he handled white-collar, national security, intellectual property, identity theft, and health care fraud cases, supplementing his practice with service as an elections officer, a bankruptcy fraud coordinator, and an international coordinator.
His memberships have included the Eastern District's Local Rules Committee as well as the Court's Technology User Group. Boone is also the past president of the Federal Bar Association for the San Joaquin Valley Chapter.
Over the course of his legal career, Boone has traveled to various countries, including Russia, Bulgaria, and India, where he has trained local judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement personnel on the subject of criminal prosecution. He has also served as a lecturer on the subjects of trial advocacy and white-collar crimes. Boone has taught as an adjunct professor at San Joaquin College of Law and co-authored material for the U.S. Department of Justice as well as for the U.S. Attorney's Office.