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David F. Levi is a United States District Judge in Sacramento, California. He was born in 1951 in Chicago, Illinois. He received an undergraduate degree from Harvard College, in History and Literature (magna cum laude) in 1972 and then entered the graduate program in history at Harvard where he specialized in English legal history. He was a teaching fellow in English History and Literature from 1973-1977 at Harvard College. He received his law degree in 1980 from the Stanford Law School, where he graduated Order of the Coif and was Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Law Review.

From 1980-1981 he clerked for Judge Ben C. Duniway of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and from 1981-1982 he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell. In 1983, he joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California as an Assistant in the criminal division. In 1986 he was appointed by President Reagan as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California. He was a member of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee and was Chair of the Public Corruption Committee of United States Attorneys. From 1986 to 1990 he directed a corruption investigation involving several California legislators. In 1990 he was appointed by President Bush as a United States District Judge.

In October 2000, Chief Justice Rehnquist appointed him to be the Chair of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. From 1997-2000 he directed the Advisory Committee's project on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure relating to discovery, leading to the discovery amendments effective December 2000. He was the first President and one of the founders of the Milton L. Schwartz American Inn of Court at the King Hall School of Law, University of California at Davis. He is a member of the American Law Institute and an advisor to the ALI's Federal Judicial Code Revision project. He was the Chair of the Ninth Circuit Task Force on Race, Religious and Ethnic Fairness.

Peter A. Nowinski is a United States Magistrate Judge in Sacramento, California. He was born in 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received an undergraduate degree from San Jose State College in 1966. He received his law degree in 1969 from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.

From 1969-1978 he was in private practice in Palo Alto, California. In 1978 he joined the Civil Division of the United States Justice Department in Washington D.C. where he served as Special Litigation Counsel and Director of the Torts Branch. In 1985 he joined the Office of the United States Attorney in Sacramento where he served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney and as U.S. Attorney. He spent 1987-1989 in private practice in Sacramento. In 1990 he returned to the Justice Department in Washington as Chief Associate Deputy Attorney General. He was appointed magistrate judge in 1990.

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