SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Mark Andrew Talamantes to a judgeship in the Marin County Superior Court.
Talamantes, 46, of Tiburon, has been a managing partner at Talamantes Villegas Carrera LLP since 2004. He was a partner at Talamantes and Villegas from 2001 to 2004 and a founding partner at the Law Offices of Mark Talamantes from 1998 to 2001. Talamantes was an associate at Brooke Oliver and Associates from 1997 to 1998. He earned a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas Tech University. Talamantes fills the vacancy created by the conversion of a court commissioner position on July 1, 2011. Talamantes is a Democrat.
The compensation for this position is $178,789.