Delbert Gee

Delbert C. Gee has been a Judge of the Superior Court of California (United States) in Alameda County since his appointment to the bench in 2002.[1] He currently presides over a civil direct calendar court in the Hayward Hall of Justice.[2]

Judge Delbert C Gee

Judge Gee previously presided over a probate, conservatorship, and guardianship court, a collaborative court, a civil direct calendar court, criminal felony and misdemeanor courts, and a juvenile dependency and delinquency court in the Oakland, Hayward, Alameda, and Berkeley courthouses. He has also been a supervising judge and a member of the court’s executive committee.

He is one of eight active Asian Pacific Islander American Superior Court judges[3] in Alameda County.[4] In 2010, Judge Gee was presented with the Judicial Distinguished Service Award by the Alameda County Bar Association,[5] 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.[6] He graduated from the University of California, Davis in 1977[7] and from Santa Clara University School of Law in December 1979[8] where he was an associate editor of the Santa Clara Law Review. Judge Gee was born and raised by immigrant parents in Alameda County[9] and has been active for decades in numerous professional, civic and service organizations in the Bay Area.