Los Angeles news online: 9th Circuit candidate's career marked by rapid ascent, wide-ranging roles 9th Circuit candidate's career marked by rapid ascent, wide-ranging roles ================================================================================ politics on 09/03/2010 08:00:00 Berkeley professor Goodwin Liu, son of immigrants, would be youngest judge on the appeals court. He clerked for Ruth Bader Ginsburg and worked in government offices during the Clinton administration. Goodwin Liu may be poised to become the youngest judge on the nation's busiest appeals court, but he was nonetheless a late bloomer.