Aaron Persky is a Superior Court Judge in Santa Clara County, currently assigned to hear criminal matters in Palo Alto. He attended law school at UC Berkeley, and later worked for the law firm of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco as a litigation associate. In 1997 he joined the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, where he tried a variety of cases, including civil commitment proceedings involving sexually violent predators. Governor Gray Davis appointed him to the Santa Clara County bench in 2003, where he has handled criminal, family, civil, and probate cases. He is the former Chair of the Court’s Community Outreach Committee. Judge Persky has a special interest in improving the effectiveness of the Court’s alternative dispute resolution programs.
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2017 Outstanding Jurist of the Year
2017 Professional Lawyer of the Year