The Hon. Somnath Raj Chatterjee is a judge for the Alameda County Superior Court in California. He was appointed to the bench in 2017 by former governor Jerry Brown. Judge Chatterjee was the first judge of South Asian descent to serve on the Alameda County Superior Court. Judge Chatterjee graduated with a degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1990 and earned his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1994. Judge Chatterjee also served as a law clerk for the Honorable A. Andrew Hauk at the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, from 1994 to 1995.
Judge Chatterjee has been practicing law at Morrison Forster since 1994 where he was a partner at the San Francisco office since 2006. He most recently has been a partner at Antolin, Agarwal and Chatterjee LLP, a boutique law firm he co-founded in 2017. He has been a trial lawyer focusing on business litigation, white collar criminal defense, and arbitration. Previously, he served as a deputy public defender at the Contra Costa County Public Defender’s Office from 1999 to 2000 and was an associate at Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal from 1995 to 1996. Judge Chatterjee has been an active member of SABA-NC and previously served as president of the organization.
