Joe Appel

Joe Appel has extensive work experience as an attorney, with their most recent role being an Associate General Counsel and Senior Director at the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco starting in August 2022. Prior to that, they worked as an Attorney at Lewis Brisbois from January 2021 to August 2022. From 2016 to 2020, they were an Attorney at Appel Law Firm LLP. Before that, they held positions as an Attorney at Simpson, Garrity, Innes & Jacuzzi P.C. from August 2015 to August 2016, an Attorney at Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart P.C. from March 2014 to June 2015, and an Attorney at Fitzgerald Abbott & Beardsley LLP from July 2011 to March 2014. Joe also gained experience as a Judicial Extern at the California Court of Appeal, Justice Timothy Reardon in 2009 and at the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, Judge Richard Kramer in 2008.

Joe Appel started their education at Bishop O'Dowd from 1994 to 1998. Joe then attended UCLA from 1998 to 2003, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology & Spanish. In 2000, they studied at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, although no specific degree or field of study was provided for this period. Finally, from 2007 to 2010, Joe attended the University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), where they obtained their Juris Doctor degree in Law.