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Member Demographics

The information on this page only covers attorneys who are active, inactive, not eligible, or are judges.

Information current as of May 20 2013 11:00PM

Attorney Membership

Member Status Population Average Age % of Membership
Active 178,116 48 73.37 %
Inactive 51,968 59 21.41 %
Judge 2,120 60 0.87 %
Not Eligible To Practice Law 10,548 59 4.35 %
Total 242,753  


By Age

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6000 Age: 22 - Population: 3 Age: 23 - Population: 5 Age: 24 - Population: 15 Age: 25 - Population: 116 Age: 26 - Population: 830 Age: 27 - Population: 1,762 Age: 28 - Population: 2,837 Age: 29 - Population: 3,630 Age: 30 - Population: 4,112 Age: 31 - Population: 4,705 Age: 32 - Population: 5,175 Age: 33 - Population: 5,342 Age: 34 - Population: 5,318 Age: 35 - Population: 5,260 Age: 36 - Population: 5,141 Age: 37 - Population: 4,982 Age: 38 - Population: 4,870 Age: 39 - Population: 5,099 Age: 40 - Population: 4,884 Age: 41 - Population: 5,301 Age: 42 - Population: 5,740 Age: 43 - Population: 5,917 Age: 44 - Population: 5,826 Age: 45 - Population: 5,491 Age: 46 - Population: 5,388 Age: 47 - Population: 5,322 Age: 48 - Population: 5,211 Age: 49 - Population: 5,459 Age: 50 - Population: 5,528 Age: 51 - Population: 5,316 Age: 52 - Population: 5,288 Age: 53 - Population: 5,364 Age: 54 - Population: 5,340 Age: 55 - Population: 5,152 Age: 56 - Population: 5,197 Age: 57 - Population: 5,292 Age: 58 - Population: 5,303 Age: 59 - Population: 5,606 Age: 60 - Population: 5,586 Age: 61 - Population: 5,671 Age: 62 - Population: 5,592 Age: 63 - Population: 5,191 Age: 64 - Population: 5,195 Age: 65 - Population: 5,130 Age: 66 - Population: 5,286 Age: 67 - Population: 4,691 Age: 68 - Population: 3,775 Age: 69 - Population: 3,362 Age: 70 - Population: 3,267 Age: 71 - Population: 3,000 Age: 72 - Population: 2,356 Age: 73 - Population: 1,939 Age: 74 - Population: 1,777 Age: 75 - Population: 1,566 Age: 76 - Population: 1,389 Age: 77 - Population: 1,211 Age: 78 - Population: 1,112 Age: 79 - Population: 1,063 Age: 80 - Population: 889 Age: 81 - Population: 884 Age: 82 - Population: 840 Age: 83 - Population: 780 Age: 84 - Population: 634 Age: 85 - Population: 569 Age: 86 - Population: 532 Age: 87 - Population: 426 Age: 88 - Population: 360 Age: 89 - Population: 322 Age: 90 - Population: 236 Age: 91 - Population: 243 Age: 92 - Population: 198 Age: 93 - Population: 161 Age: 94 - Population: 113 Age: 95 - Population: 83 Age: 96 - Population: 56 Age: 97 - Population: 37 Age: 98 - Population: 30 Age: 99 - Population: 33 Age: 100 - Population: 16
  20 60 100
  Age (years)


By District

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District Population % of Membership
Outside California 47,521 19.58 %
District 01 47,514 19.57 %
District 02 68,390 28.17 %
District 03 15,335 6.32 %
District 04 44,795 18.45 %
District 05 5,191 2.14 %
District 06 14,007 5.77 %


By Law School

The 25 law schools with the largest number of graduates admitted to the State Bar.

Rank School Population % of Membership
1 UC Hastings COL; San Francisco CA 16,862 6.95 %
2 Loyola Law School; Los Angeles CA 14,338 5.91 %
3 UCLA SOL; Los Angeles CA 12,479 5.14 %
4 UC Berkeley SOL Boalt Hall; Berkeley CA 11,474 4.73 %
5 Southwestern Univ SOL; Los Angeles CA 10,693 4.40 %
6 McGeorge SOL Univ of the Pacific; CA 10,379 4.28 %
7 Univ of San Diego SOL; San Diego CA 9,851 4.06 %
8 Santa Clara Univ SOL; Santa Clara CA 9,082 3.74 %
9 USC Law School; Los Angeles CA 8,125 3.35 %
10 U of San Francisco SOL; San Francisco CA 7,341 3.02 %
11 California Western SOL; San Diego CA 6,010 2.48 %
12 UC Davis SOL King Hall; Davis CA 5,994 2.47 %
13 Pepperdine Univ SOL; Malibu CA 5,882 2.42 %
14 Golden Gate Univ SOL; San Francisco CA 5,795 2.39 %
15 Stanford Univ Law School; Stanford CA 5,563 2.29 %
16 Harvard Univ Law School; Cambridge MA 5,410 2.23 %
17 Western State Univ; CA 4,616 1.90 %
18 Whittier Coll SOL; CA 4,002 1.65 %
19 Georgetown Univ Law Ctr; Washington DC 3,309 1.36 %
20 Western State Univ COL; Fullerton CA 3,308 1.36 %
21 Univ of Michigan Law Sch; Ann Arbor MI 2,748 1.13 %
22 Thomas Jefferson SOL; San Diego CA 2,544 1.05 %
23 Columbia Univ SOL; New York NY 2,281 0.94 %
24 New York Univ SOL; New York NY 2,267 0.93 %
25 George Washington Univ LS; Washington DC 1,920 0.79 %


By Undergraduate School

The 25 undergraduate schools with the largest number of graduates admitted to the State Bar.

Rank School Population % of Membership
1 Univ of California at Los Angeles; CA 21,000 8.65 %
2 Univ of California Berkeley; Berkeley CA 18,561 7.65 %
3 Univ of Southern Calif; Los Angeles CA 7,568 3.12 %
4 Univ of California Santa Barbara; CA 7,210 2.97 %
5 Stanford Univ; Stanford CA 7,009 2.89 %
6 Univ of California Davis; Davis CA 5,843 2.41 %
7 Univ of California San Diego; La Jolla CA 5,399 2.22 %
8 Univ of California Irvine; Irvine CA 4,524 1.86 %
9 San Diego State Univ; San Diego CA 3,486 1.44 %
10 California St Univ Northridge; CA 3,457 1.42 %
11 California St Univ Long Beach; CA 2,721 1.12 %
12 Harvard Univ; Cambridge MA 2,493 1.03 %
13 Univ of California Santa Cruz; CA 2,467 1.02 %
14 Yale Univ; New Haven CT 2,440 1.01 %
15 Santa Clara Univ; Santa Clara CA 2,348 0.97 %
16 Brigham Young Univ; Provo UT 2,339 0.96 %
17 California St Univ Fullerton; CA 2,221 0.91 %
18 San Francisco State Unv; San Francisco CA 2,134 0.88 %
19 California St Univ Sacramento; CA 2,049 0.84 %
20 San Jose State Univ; San Jose CA 1,957 0.81 %
21 Univ of California Riverside; CA 1,938 0.80 %
22 Cornell Univ; Ithaca NY 1,911 0.79 %
23 Loyola Marymount Univ; Los Angeles CA 1,879 0.77 %
24 Foreign School; 1,796 0.74 %
25 Univ of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia PA 1,770 0.73 %


By Years of Membership

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8000 Tenure: 1 years - Population: 6,833 Tenure: 2 years - Population: 6,622 Tenure: 3 years - Population: 6,466 Tenure: 4 years - Population: 6,636 Tenure: 5 years - Population: 7,120 Tenure: 6 years - Population: 6,726 Tenure: 7 years - Population: 6,704 Tenure: 8 years - Population: 5,981 Tenure: 9 years - Population: 5,521 Tenure: 10 years - Population: 5,675 Tenure: 11 years - Population: 5,546 Tenure: 12 years - Population: 6,208 Tenure: 13 years - Population: 6,150 Tenure: 14 years - Population: 5,703 Tenure: 15 years - Population: 6,011 Tenure: 16 years - Population: 6,493 Tenure: 17 years - Population: 5,780 Tenure: 18 years - Population: 5,657 Tenure: 19 years - Population: 5,788 Tenure: 20 years - Population: 5,907 Tenure: 21 years - Population: 5,838 Tenure: 22 years - Population: 5,354 Tenure: 23 years - Population: 5,792 Tenure: 24 years - Population: 6,077 Tenure: 25 years - Population: 5,739 Tenure: 26 years - Population: 5,524 Tenure: 27 years - Population: 4,490 Tenure: 28 years - Population: 4,741 Tenure: 29 years - Population: 4,200 Tenure: 30 years - Population: 4,724 Tenure: 31 years - Population: 4,687 Tenure: 32 years - Population: 4,886 Tenure: 33 years - Population: 4,789 Tenure: 34 years - Population: 5,593 Tenure: 35 years - Population: 5,074 Tenure: 36 years - Population: 4,822 Tenure: 37 years - Population: 4,524 Tenure: 38 years - Population: 3,918 Tenure: 39 years - Population: 3,859 Tenure: 40 years - Population: 2,959 Tenure: 41 years - Population: 3,898 Tenure: 42 years - Population: 1,971 Tenure: 43 years - Population: 1,998 Tenure: 44 years - Population: 1,667 Tenure: 45 years - Population: 899 Tenure: 46 years - Population: 1,243 Tenure: 47 years - Population: 1,479 Tenure: 48 years - Population: 998 Tenure: 49 years - Population: 818 Tenure: 50 years - Population: 766 Tenure: 51 years - Population: 663 Tenure: 52 years - Population: 656 Tenure: 53 years - Population: 527 Tenure: 54 years - Population: 462 Tenure: 55 years - Population: 229 Tenure: 56 years - Population: 333 Tenure: 57 years - Population: 305 Tenure: 58 years - Population: 387 Tenure: 59 years - Population: 268 Tenure: 60 years - Population: 294 Tenure: 61 years - Population: 267 Tenure: 62 years - Population: 203 Tenure: 63 years - Population: 152 Tenure: 64 years - Population: 144 Tenure: 65 years - Population: 44 Tenure: 66 years - Population: 51 Tenure: 67 years - Population: 35 Tenure: 68 years - Population: 15 Tenure: 69 years - Population: 11 Tenure: 70 years - Population: 6 Tenure: 71 years - Population: 7 Tenure: 72 years - Population: 16 Tenure: 73 years - Population: 13 Tenure: 74 years - Population: 7 Tenure: 75 years - Population: 11 Tenure: 76 years - Population: 8 Tenure: 77 years - Population: 3 Tenure: 78 years - Population: 1 Tenure: 79 years - Population: 2 Tenure: 80 years - Population:
  1 40 80
  Years of Membership


By Admission Year

Year Number Admitted Average Age
1855 1  0 
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1865    
1866 1  22 
1867    
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1869    
1870 3  26 
1871    
1872 1  27 
1873 4  20 
1874 2  25 
1875 7  26 
1876 9  25 
1877 7  25 
1878 4  25 
1879 26  25 
1880 11  25 
1881 17  24 
1882 25  25 
1883 24  24 
1884 19  25 
1885 36  26 
1886 32  25 
1887 46  25 
1888 39  26 
1889 46  27 
1890 61  25 
1891 64  25 
1892 72  27 
1893 77  26 
1894 99  26 
1895 129  27 
1896 126  26 
1897 156  27 
1898 135  27 
1899 116  26 
1900 126  25 
1901 134  25 
1902 140  28 
1903 136  29 
1904 144  28 
1905 140  30 
1906 156  29 
1907 195  28 
1908 224  30 
1909 286  29 
1910 240  31 
1911 380  29 
1912 383  30 
1913 438  30 
1914 425  30 
1915 482  30 
1916 338  30 
1917 382  29 
1918 253  32 
1919 265  33 
1920 291  32 
1921 364  33 
1922 446  32 
1923 601  33 
1924 506  32 
1925 436  32 
1926 590  32 
1927* 790  32 
1928 605  31 
1929 579  31 
1930 656  30 
1931 699  31 
1932 553  28 
1933 518  28 
1934 426  28 
1935 442  28 
1936 516  28 
1937 418  28 
1938 493  28 
1939 317  29 
1940 390  28 
1941 392  28 
1942 257  29 
1943 182  32 
1944 265  34 
1945 231  33 
1946 482  32 
1947 564  32 
1948 415  32 
1949 947  30 
1950 726  30 
1951 846  30 
1952 921  29 
1953 1,023  30 
1954 886  31 
1955 1,088  30 
1956 790  30 
1957 820  30 
1958 543  31 
1959 934  30 
1960 1,024  30 
1961 1,259  31 
1962 1,213  31 
1963 1,261  31 
1964 1,284  30 
1965 1,552  30 
1966 2,158  29 
1967 1,736  29 
1968 1,244  30 
1969 2,266  30 
1970 2,612  30 
1971 2,603  30 
1972 5,024  30 
1973 3,687  29 
1974 4,713  30 
1975 4,693  29 
1976 5,365  29 
1977 5,634  29 
1978 5,871  30 
1979 6,425  30 
1980 5,457  30 
1981 5,458  30 
1982 5,227  30 
1983 5,146  30 
1984 4,581  30 
1985 5,102  30 
1986 4,806  30 
1987 5,875  30 
1988 6,172  31 
1989 6,462  31 
1990 6,143  31 
1991 5,623  31 
1992 6,094  31 
1993 6,142  31 
1994 5,998  31 
1995 5,815  31 
1996 5,924  30 
1997 6,657  31 
1998 6,115  31 
1999 5,785  31 
2000 6,221  31 
2001 6,269  31 
2002 5,615  31 
2003 5,725  30 
2004 5,555  30 
2005 6,009  30 
2006 6,729  30 
2007 6,749  30 
2008 7,132  30 
2009 6,641  30 
2010 6,472  30 
2011 6,623  30 
2012 6,833  29 

* The State Bar of California was founded in 1927 by the legislature. Prior to 1927, bar membership was voluntary.