The Hon. Susan van Keulen is a magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She was appointed to the bench on January 3, 2017 to fill the seat vacated by the Hon. Paul Grewal.
Van Keulen earned a B.A. from the University of California, Davis. She then completed a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.
She began her legal career as an attorney with the Thelen Law Firm in 1988. She practiced there for the next twenty years, eventually leaving to join O’Melveny & Myers as a partner and litigation practice leader. Over the course of her career, she specialized in commercial and intellectual property matters, particularly as they related to technology and commercial disputes involving semiconductor, computer, and electronics technologies.
Van Keulen has served on the Patent Local Rules Advisory Subcommittee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.