Barry Goode
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Barry P. Goode (born April 11, 1948) is a judge in California and a former federal judicial nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Early life and education
A New York native, Goode earned a bachelor's degree magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Kenyon College in 1969. He earned a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1972.
Professional career
Goode's first job out of law school was as a special assistant to Sen. Adlai Stevenson III, from 1972 until 1974, when Goode then joined the San Francisco law firm McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen (now Bingham McCutchen), where he rose to become a partner. Throughout his 27-year career at the firm, he specialized in representing large corporations in environmental litigation. He also worked as an adjunct instructor of environmental law at the University of San Francisco.[1] Goode left the firm in 2001 to join state government.
Nomination to the Ninth Circuit
President Bill Clinton nominated Goode to the Ninth Circuit on June 24, 1998. With the U.S. Senate under Republican control from that point until the end of Clinton's presidency, Goode's nomination languished, with no hearing scheduled or U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee vote for him. Despite the support for him from both of California's senators at that time, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, Goode's nomination was held up by one anonymous senator who had placed a hold on his nomination for unexplained reasons. Clinton renominated Goode on January 26, 1999, and renominated him again on January 3, 2001.[2] On March 19, 2001, however, President George W. Bush withdrew 62 executive and judicial nominations made by Clinton in his final days as president, including that of Goode.[3]
Career after the failed nomination
On February 1, 2001, California Gov. Gray Davis named Goode as his secretary of legal affairs. Goode called the post an "important job," in an interview with the Metropolitan News Enterprise newspaper in a story that was published on February 2, 2001. "I'm the kind of person who looks forward, not backward," he told the paper.
On November 11, 2003, just days before leaving office after an unprecedented recall vote, Davis appointed Goode to serve on the Contra Costa County Superior Court.[4] Goode's courtroom is located in Martinez, California, which is the county seat of Contra Costa County.