Identity

About Julia Spiegel

Titles and dates come from the State Bar of California licensee record (Julia Blau Spiegel, No. 292469), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s appellate-lawyer-representative biography, the Governors Action Alliance founder page, Stanford’s Haas Center profile, a Yale Law School 2014–15 fellowship biography, and the docket of County of Santa Clara v. Trump, N.D. Cal. No. 3:17-cv-00574. Identity confidence: high. This page is locked to that lawyer. Other public people share the name Julia Spiegel. They are not this woman. No Wikimedia Commons or U.S. government portrait of her was located. No generated face.

West front of the United States Capitol — United States Capitol, west front. Architect of the Capitol. U.S. government work. Used as institutional context. No free-use Spiegel face was located.

Julia Blau Spiegel is a California lawyer. Obama UN shop. Then Santa Clara County Counsel suing Donald Trump. Then Gavin Newsom’s deputy legal affairs secretary. Then the CEO of GovAct — the shop that staffed Democrat governors after the 2024 election. This page is identity only. The episodes live in the posts. This is not the biography she would write. It is not a tribute.

Documented roles

Public name / license. Julia Blau Spiegel, California State Bar No. 292469. Admitted December 3, 2013. Status: Active. Employer listing: GovAct, Oakland. Law school: Yale Law School. apps.calbar.ca.gov.
Education (as official bios state). B.A., Stanford University (Stanford Lawyer magazine names her BA ’06). M.P.A. / M.P.P., Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Woodrow Wilson School in the Yale fellowship bio). J.D., Yale Law School, class of 2013. ca9.uscourts.gov; Yale 2014–15 fellowship bios (PDF); Stanford Lawyer.
Before graduate school (as her bios state). Field research on armed conflict in eastern Africa for the Center for American Progress and the International Crisis Group. Just Security author page; Stanford instructor bio.
2013–2014. Law clerk to Judge M. Margaret McKeown, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Yale 2014–15 fellowship bio: “She currently serves as a law clerk to Hon. M. Margaret McKeown.” Ninth Circuit ALR biography repeats the clerkship.
2014–15 (fellowship year as Yale states it). Policy advisor / senior advisor in the Executive Office of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power. Yale 2014–15 bios; later GovAct, Haas, and CA9 biographies call the role senior advisor.
2017 until her Newsom appointment (Squire Patton Boggs, Nov. 22, 2021). Deputy County Counsel, County of Santa Clara. Notice of appearance as Julia Blau Spiegel, Feb. 17, 2017, County of Santa Clara v. Trump, N.D. Cal. No. 3:17-cv-00574. CourtListener docket; Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse person page.
By Nov. 22, 2021–2024. Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary (and, in later bios, senior advisor on reproductive rights) to California Governor Gavin Newsom. Squire Patton Boggs Foundation, Nov. 22, 2021: she “serves as” that officer; portfolio then listed as consumer protection, privacy, election integrity, and immigration. GovAct: she left government service in 2024. squirepattonboggs.com; govactalliance.org.
2024–present (as her pages state). Founder and CEO, Governors Action Alliance (GovAct). Ninth Circuit ALR biography, last updated Aug. 25, 2026, uses the same title. CalBar lists GovAct and www.GovActAlliance.org.
Other public affiliations as organization pages state. Appellate Lawyer Representative, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (CA9 ALR bios). Life member, Council on Foreign Relations (GovAct / BIO bios). National Advisory Board, Stanford Haas Center for Public Service. Taught foreign affairs and the U.S. Constitution at Stanford Law School and U.S. foreign policy at Stanford’s Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy Program (CA9 / Haas / GovAct). Just Security author page also lists the Truman Center for National Policy City and State Diplomacy Task Force and a Squire Patton Boggs Foundation board role as of that bio.

What this site is not

It is not a finding that Julia Spiegel committed a crime. A counsel appearance is not a conviction. A nationwide injunction is a court order, not a personal indictment. Daily Signal reporting on emails obtained by Government Accountability and Oversight is reporting; the outlet itself said it did not know whether a planned Biden White House meeting occurred. GovAct calls itself nonpartisan; the Daily Signal and the Washington Examiner describe the shop as Democrat- or left-leaning. Both descriptions are recorded. This site does not invent quotes, titles, donations, or convictions. It does not invent friendliness to Donald Trump. The public record of this office is Santa Clara County Counsel / Newsom legal affairs / GovAct — the Democrat-governor apparatus that sued the first Trump administration and, after 2024, staffed resistance briefings. That is the documented apparatus role.

It is not a White House product. It is not lawsuit-proof. There is no Method page. Read the posts.