Judge Allison H.  Goddard was sworn in as a U.S.  Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of California in August 2019.  She graduated from Boston College in 1993 and received her J.D.  from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2000.  Judge Goddard spent the first half of her legal career representing corporate defendants in litigation at Cooley LLP and her own law firm, Jaczko Goddard LLP.  In 2011, she shifted her practice to representing plaintiffs in complex and intellectual property litigation.  She has tried several cases, including class actions and patent infringement disputes.  Judge Goddard speaks regularly on eDiscovery and other litigation issues.  She is a member of the Ninth Circuit Magistrate Judge Education Committee, the Executive Board of the Louis M.  Welsh Inn of Court, and the Board of Visitors at the University of San Diego School of Law.