Jeff Rosen

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen is a nationally recognized leader in criminal justice reform. Mr. Rosen’s changes to one of the largest prosecutorial offices in the country include: reducing the jail population, diversion programs for non-violent offenders, expungements for low level drug crimes, prison reform, and promoting the highest ethical prosecution standards. This, all while keeping crime at its lowest rate in decades, by vigorously and successfully prosecuting murderers, rapists, drug traffickers, domestic violence abusers, child molesters, corporate polluters, and those who commit fraud against the elderly.

Mr. Rosen received his undergraduate degree from the University of California in Los Angeles, where he majored in Philosophy and graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He received his law degree from UC Berkeley School of Law, where he served on the Moot Court Board and taught English to immigrants.

Mr. Rosen joined the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office as a prosecutor in 1995. During this time, he successfully prosecuted some of the most complex and high-profile criminal cases in drug trafficking, burglary, rape, child molestation, gang violence, and murder. In his last remaining case before taking Office as District Attorney, he obtained first degree murder convictions and life sentences against the defendants whose murder-for-hire scheme resulted in the slaying of Los Gatos businessman, Mark Achilli.

Since arriving in Santa Clara County, Mr. Rosen has served as president of a large synagogue, taught trial advocacy at Santa Clara University Law School, and trained police officers in report-writing.

Mr. Rosen has two daughters with his wife, who serves as a Superior Court Judge for the State of California. He enjoys playing sports, reading, and cheering for the Green Bay Packers.

An admirer of President Harry Truman, DA Rosen believes, “The buck stops here.”