Terry Guy Tadlock was born in Marysville, California, on April 12, 1946. He was admitted to the California Bar in 1975, having graduated from the University of San Francisco School of Law (JD, 1975) and San Jose State University (BA, 1969). He is admitted to the United States District Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States (2003). He is a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the San Francisco Superior Court (1981-), the Bar Association of San Francisco, the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California, the Defense Research Institute, and the Defense Seminar of San Francisco. His primary areas of concentration are public entity defense, product liability law and negligence. Reported cases: Wolfe v. Dublin Unified School District, 56 CA 4th 126; 65 Cal Rptr 2d 280 (1997); McMahon v. Albany Unified School District, et al., 104 CA 4th 1275; 129 Cal Rptr 184 (2002).