# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vaughn-walker
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:13:08.796Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vaughn-walker"
name: "Vaughn Walker"
slug: "vaughn-walker"
description: "Vaughn Richard Walker is an American lawyer who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 1989 to 2011. Walker presided over the original trial in Hollingsworth v. Perry, where he found California's Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional."
tagline: "American judge"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Judge_Vaughn_Walker_Photo_in_Lobby_with_San_Francisco_in_Background.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1944"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.26
  momentum:             14.375
  historical:           5.682902666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughn_R._Walker"
    title: "Vaughn R. Walker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "ڤاوجن ووكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughn_Walker"
    title: "Vaughn Walker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughn_R._Walker"
    title: "Vaughn R. Walker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A2%D8%B1._%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B1"
    title: "وان آر. واکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughn_Walker"
    title: "Vaughn Walker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4009030"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump