Background
Caulfield, Barbara Ann was born on December 2, 1947 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Edward F. and Lucille M. Caulfield.
Caulfield, Barbara Ann was born on December 2, 1947 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Edward F. and Lucille M. Caulfield.
Bachelor of Science, Northwestern University, 1969; Juris Doctor, Northwestern University, 1972.
Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Caulfield received a Bachelor of Surgery from Northwestern University in 1969 and a Juris Doctor from Northwestern University School of Law in 1972. She was a researcher and attorney of the Chicago Law Enforcement Study Group, Northwestern University Center for Urban Affairs from 1972 to 1973, and a supervising attorney of Northwestern University School Law Legal Aid Clinic from 1973 to 1974. She was a professor of law at the University of Oregon Law School from 1974 to 1978.
She was a professor of law, University of California, San Francisco, Hastings College of the Law from 1978 to 1983, serving as an academic dean from 1980 to 1981.
She was in private practice in San Francisco, California from 1983 to 1991, serving as senior counsel to Pacific Bell from 1990 to 1991. She also began as a lecturer in law in the Stanford Law School in 1988.
On June 27, 1991, Caulfield was nominated by President George H. West. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California vacated by William West. Schwarzer. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 31, 1991, and received her commission on November 5, 1991.
Caulfield served in that capacity until her resignation from the bench on September 16, 1994.
Caulfield thereafter returned to private practice in San Francisco, and continued to lecture at Stanford until her death in 2010.
Founder Child Advisers Association, Chicago, 1972. Board directors National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse, Chicago, 1974-1983, Lawyer's Committee for Urban Affairs, Chicago, since 1986. Member American Bar Association (county criminal justice section 1980-1984, chairman litigation section committee 1983-1986), California Bar Association, Alaska Bar Association, American Law Institute, Queen's Bench, Association Trial Lawyers American.
Children: Alexander, Elizabeth.