In a July 2018 announcement, California Governor Jerry Brown appointed Alison Tucher to the First District Court of Appeal.
As a former partner at Morrison and Foerster for 10 years and an Alameda County Superior Court judge since 2014, Tucher has established her tenured career as a lawyer and champion of the law.

After graduating from SLS, Tucher clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, served as assistant director of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s White House Security Review Team from 1994 to 1995 and as deputy district attorney in Santa Clara County from 1995 to 1998.
She moved from government work into private practice in 1998 and was a litigator for Morrison and Foerster from 1998 to 2004 before making partner in 2004, a position she held for 10 years.

Pro bono work has also featured prominently in her legal career. As a student at SLS Tucher took on a murder case that lasted 12 years. Her client, the defendant, was later exonerated.

Tucher was one of six judges to be appointed to the California Courts of Appeal, and she was confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointment, consisting of Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Attorney General Xavier Becerra, JD ’84 (BA ’80), and Senior Presiding Justice J. Anthony Kline.