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Commission on Judicial Appointments to Consider Appointment of Mr Met News Brown Elevates Two to First District Court of Appeal Gov. Jerry Brown announced Wednesday his elevation of Alameda Superior Court Judge Ioana Petrou and San Francisco Superior Court Judge Tracie L. Brown to the First District Court of Appeal. Both are Democrats. Petrou, if confirmed, will take a seat in Div. Three, replacing Justice Stewart R. Pollak who was appointed as presiding justice of the First District’s Div. Four. Petrou has been a judge since 2010. She was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of California from 2004 to the time of her first judicial appointment, before which she worked both in private practice and as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York. Her law degree is from Berkeley. Brown, who has held her current position since 2013, is slated to take a seat on Div. Four, replacing Justice Timothy A. Reardon after his retirement. Prior to taking the bench she was an assistant U.S. attorney, also in the Northern District of California, beginning in 2002. Before that, Brown was in private practice for five years. Her J.D. is from Berkeley. Both appointments are subject to confirmation from the Commission on Judicial Appointments, made up of Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil- Sakauye, Attorney General Xavier Becerra, and the district’s senior presiding justice, J. Anthony Kline. Pollak is currently awaiting confirmation to his presiding justice position by the same commission. That panel will act on the appointment of gubernatorial advisor Joshua P. Groban to the Supreme Court on Dec. 21. Kline will serve in his capacity of the seniormost presiding justice in the state. California Courts News Room Commission on Judicial Appointments to Consider Appointment of Mr. Joshua Groban to the Supreme Court of California The confirmation hearing set for December 21 in San Francisco will be webcast live. November 21, 2018 SAN FRANCISCO—A public hearing has been scheduled by the Commission on Judicial Appointments for Dec. 21, beginning at 11 a.m. in the Supreme Court Courtroom—350 McAllister Street in San Francisco—to consider the appointment by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. of Joshua P. Groban to the Supreme Court of California. The state Constitution specifies that a gubernatorial appointment to the Supreme Court is effective when confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments. The commission members who will consider the appointment are Chief Justice of California Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye (Chair), California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, and senior Presiding Justice of the state Court of Appeal J. Anthony Kline. Appointee Summary Biography Groban would fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Associate Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar on Aug. 31, 2017. Groban has served as senior advisor to Governor Brown since 2011. As senior advisor, Groban has overseen the appointment of approximately 600 judges throughout the state. Groban has also advised the Governor in high-profile litigation and policy issues involving education, the judiciary, criminal justice, national security and constitutional interpretation. Full Article Here: https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/commission-on-judicial-appointments-to-consider- appointment-of-mr-joshua-groban-to-the-supreme-court-of-california The Recorder Two Bay Area Trial Judges Appointed to First District Appellate Bench In his latest appellate announcement, Gov. Jerry Brown picked Alameda County Superior Court Judge Ioana Petrou and San Francisco Superior Court Judge Tracie Brown. Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday filled two vacancies on the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco with trial judges from Bay Area courts. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Ioana Petrou will join the appellate court’s third division, replacing Justice Stuart Pollak, who was recently nominated to become presiding justice of the First District’s Division Four. Before being named to the Alameda County court in 2010, Petrou was as assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of California for six years. Petrou also worked two years as counsel at O’Melveny & Myers and completed a two-year stint as assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York in 2002. Her resume also includes three years as associate at Foley & Lardner and a year each at Weissburg & Aronson and Proskauer Rose in the mid-1990s. The governor also nominated San Francisco Superior Court Judge Tracie Brown to the First District bench. Brown was appointed to the San Francisco trial court in 2013. Prior to that, she served 11 years as an assistant U.S. attorney in California’s Northern District. She was an associate at Cooley Godward Kronish from 1997 to 2002, a law clerk for Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1998 to 1999 and an associate at Morrison & Foerster from 1996 to 1997. Brown will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Timothy Reardon. .
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