Education
Harvard College; Harvard University. Merton College; Yale Law School.
Harvard College; Harvard University. Merton College; Yale Law School.
Fletcher went to Roosevelt High School in Seattle, Washington, graduating in 1964. Fletcher received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1968 and another from Merton College, Oxford University in 1970 as a Rhodes Scholar. He earned his law degree from Yale Law School in 1975.
He then clerked for United States. District Court Judge Stanley A. Weigel from 1975 to 1976.
Fletcher then clerked for Associate Justice William J. Brennan, Junior. of the United States. Supreme Court from 1976 to 1977. Fletcher"s mother, Betty Binns Fletcher, was also a judge on the Ninth Circuit, although she held senior status from 1998 until her death in 2012.
Fletcher teaches Federal Courts at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall). Fletcher was a Lieutenant in the United States. Navy from 1970 to 1972 and a Professor of Law at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California Berkeley from 1977 to 1998.
Fletcher was the author of the Ninth Circuit"s decision in Demers v.
Austin (January 2014). His first appointment was never voted on by the Senate, but his second nomination was confirmed in a 57-41 vote on October 8, 1998 and received his commission on October 9.