Stacie Beckerman

Judge Stacie F. Beckerman was appointed to serve as U.S. Magistrate Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon in January 2015.

Prior to joining the bench, Judge Beckerman served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, and as an Assistant Attorney General at the Oregon Department of Justice. Prior to government service, Judge Beckerman worked for many years as a litigator at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP.

Judge Beckerman has taught criminal law courses at both Lewis and Clark Law School and the University of Oregon School of Law, and has served as a high school mock trial coach. In addition to serving as the Secretary of the Federal Magistrate Judge Association, she currently serves on the Administrative Office’s Magistrate Judge Advisory Group and is the past chairperson of the Ninth Circuit’s Magistrate Judge Executive Board and Ninth Circuit’s Pro Se Litigation Committee. She also serves on the Ninth Circuit’s Pacific Islands Committee and sits on the board of the U.S. District Court Historical Society.

Judge Beckerman earned her law degree from Harvard Law School in 1998, graduated from the University of Iowa in 1995, and recently returned to school to earn a master’s degree in international human rights law from the University of Oxford in 2023.