Delbert Gee

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rdf:langString Delbert C. Gee is a retired Judge of the Superior Court of California (United States) in the County of Alameda and served from his appointment in 2002 by the Governor of the State of California until his retirement in 2022. Judge Gee presided over a civil direct calendar and trial court where he presided over two jury trials conducted entirely by video during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a criminal felony and misdemeanor calendar and trial court, as well as a probate, conservatorship, and guardianship court, a collaborative and drug court, and a juvenile dependency and delinquency court, in the Hayward, Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley courthouses. He has also been a supervising judge and a member of the court’s executive committee. He was the seventh Asian Pacific Islander American Superior Court judge in Alameda County's history. In 2002, Judge Gee was honored by the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, 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. Judge Gee began his legal career as a Deputy District Attorney in Ventura County and then spent the next 20 years in San Francisco as an associate with Hassard, Bonnington, Rogers & Huber and with Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, and later as a partner with Sturgeon, Keller, Phillips, Gee & O'Leary PC and with the Pacific West Law Group LLP, specializing in health and liability insurance coverage litigation, medical malpractice litigation, and health care law. He graduated from the University of California, Davis in 1977 and from Santa Clara University School of Law in December 1979 where he was an associate editor of the Santa Clara Law Review. Judge Gee was born and raised in Alameda County by immigrant parents who never had an opportunity to attend college, and has been active for decades in numerous professional, civic and service organizations in the Bay Area.