Judge Monica F. Wiley was appointed to the bench by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on September 1, 2009. Since her appointment, Judge Wiley has presided in civil, criminal, family law, and juvenile departments, and served as the Supervising Judge of the San Francisco Unified Family Court from January 2018 to February 2024. During her tenure on the court, she has participated in numerous internal court committees, including the Executive Committee, the Governance Committee, and the Strategic Planning Committee. Judge Wiley is a current member of the B.E. Witkin Judicial College Steering Committee and has served as a faculty member and seminar group leader for the College since 2017, where she teaches an Introduction to Family Law class and a class designed to train new judges on how to work with self-represented litigants. Since 2014, Judge Wiley has also been a faculty member for the California Center for Judicial Education and Research (CJER) and for the New Judges Orientation program (NJO). Judge Wiley is the current President of the Association of African American California Judicial Officers, Inc. (AAACJO), an associate member of the San Francisco Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), a faculty member with the University of San Francisco’s Intensive Advocacy Program and serves as an Adjunct Professor at UC Law San Francisco where she teaches an Advanced Trial Advocacy Class. Judge Wiley was appointed by the California Judges Association (CJA) to the Task Force on the Elimination of Bias and Inequality and served as the 2022-2023 President of the San Francisco Lawyers Club American Inn of Court. She also serves as a Commissioner on the California Commission on Access to Justice and is the current Vice-President of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, California Chapter (AFCC-CA). In June of 2024, Judge Wiley was appointed to serve as the Vice-Chair for the Application Evaluation and Nomination Committee (AENC) by Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero.

Over the course of her judicial career, Judge Wiley has received numerous awards for her contributions to judicial education and service to the legal community. She has received the 2021 Bernard S. Jefferson Judge of the Year from the California Association of Black Lawyers, the 2021 Alba Witkin Humanitarian Award from the California Judges Association, the 2022 California Family Law Judicial Officer of the Year by the California Lawyers Association, the 2023 Outstanding Service to Family Law Award from the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists (ACFLS), and the 2023 Northern California Chapter of American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) C. Rick Chamberlin Award for extraordinary contributions to the family law community. In 2023, Judge Wiley was recognized by the National Judicial College for its 60th Anniversary as one of 60 courageous judges in the country and was a finalist for the 2024 ABOTA Don E. Bailey Civility & Professionalism Award.

Judge Wiley graduated from U.C. Berkeley (Go Bears!) and cum laude from Howard University School of Law.