Judge Jill Theresa Feeney received her B.A. from the College of William and Mary and her J.D. from Yale Law School. After graduating law school, she worked as a law clerk to the Honorable William H. Yohn, Jr. at the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1992 to 1993 until she joined Arnold and Porter in Washington D.C. as an associate. In 1995 she was an assistant to Special Counsel Mary McLaughlin at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information. She left her firm in 1997 to become an assistant U.S. attorney in New York, where she remained until she moved to the California U.S. Attorney’s Office (where she served as deputy chief of the Major Frauds Section) being admitted to the California bar in 2002. Her prosecutorial career focused on fraud cases such as ponzi schemes, money laundering, and tax evasion. She also serves as a Lecturer in Law at USC Gould School of Law and is a member of the National Association of Women Judges where she serves on the Membership Outreach and Retention and Women in Prison committees. She was appointed to the bench in 2018 by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. and is a democrat.