Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The State Bar Court judges are nominated by a variety of individuals and bodies. Two of its five hearing judges are appointed by the California Supreme Court, and the remaining three are each selected by the Governor, Speaker of the Assembly and Senate Committee on Rules in turn; these judges constitute the Hearing Department, which is the trial level of the State Bar Court. [3]
When a judge's term is expiring another judge from a different court can file a declaration of candidacy to succeed to the office presently held by the judge. [20] Most of California's roughly 1,600 superior court judges are first appointed by the governor of California. [21] A person is eligible to be a judge only if the person has been a ...
From 1992 to 1993, he was the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. In 1993, Mendez again returned to private practice. Mendez served as a judge on the Sacramento County Superior Court for the State of California between 2001 and 2008. [4]
Selna was in private practice in California from 1970 to 1998, [2] at the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers, working first from the firm's Los Angeles office and then its Newport Beach office. [1] While in private practice, Selna was involved in a number of significant cases, including Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission v.
In 1961, California Assemblyman John A. Busterud proposed to expand the power of the Commission to require its approval for the Governor to appoint judges, [4] which was endorsed by Caspar Weinberger. [5] A bill to that effect was introduced in 1963. [6] The Commission has been criticized by various groups since shortly after its creation. [7]
Biden has had four judges confirmed to the Ninth Circuit in California — all people of color, and three women — and 26 to federal district courts in the state during his presidency, according ...
Andi Mudryk will be the second openly trans judge in California. Victoria Kolakowski was elected as a judge of the Alameda County Superior Court in 2010.
He began his career as a deputy district attorney in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office. From 1990 to 1994, he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. In 1994, he moved back to California and became an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California. [citation needed]