Podcast host, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, welcomes Judge Laurel Beeler, a U.S. Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. In 2006, Beeler received the Northern District of California Judicial Conference’s Public Service Award. In 2012, she was also named one of The Recorder’s Women Leaders in Law. She additionally received BASF’s Barristers Choice Award in 2015 and the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association’s Magistrate Judge of the Year award in 2018. In this episode, learn more about Judge Beeler’s early years and the path that led her into the law.