On January 11, 2016, Judge Garrett L. Wong formally replaced the Honorable Teri L. Jackson as the San Francisco Superior Court Asbestos Presiding Judge.
Judge Wong, a San Francisco native and alum of the University of California, has worked in civil and criminal litigation in the public and private sectors. He was originally appointed to the San Francisco Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2005 and served as a misdemeanor and trial judge at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco.
Although Judge Wong has only served as a civil judge for two years, he has presided over several asbestos cases. The San Francisco Superior Court handles the majority of California asbestos litigation cases, and as such, the court created a single asbestos case management department to handle them.