Background
Tanke, Tony J. was born in 1951.
Tanke, Tony J. was born in 1951.
University of Wisconsin (Bachelor of Arts). University of Minnesota Law School (Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, 1975). University of Minnesota Law School (Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, 1975).
Worked at Tanke & Willemsen, A Professional Association (Palo Alto, California) specializing in Litigation, Appellate Practice. Admitted to the bar, 1975, California. Order of the Coif. Editor, Minnesota Law Review.
Law Clerk, Justice Fallon Kelly, Minnesota Supreme Court, 1975-1976 and Judge William W. Schwarzer, United States. District Court, Northern District of California, 1976-1977. Senior Judicial Staff Attorney, California Supreme Court, Chief Justice Malcolm M. Lucas, 1989-1994.
Adjunct Professor: Commercial Law, University of San Francisco School of Law. Law and Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley.