Governor Appointments

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Chad W. Firetag and Bambi J. Moyer to judgeships in the Riverside County Superior Court. Firetag, 38, of Riverside, has served as the assistant public defender at the Riverside County Public...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Corey G. Lee and Charles J. Umeda to judgeships in the San Bernardino County Superior Court. Lee, 43, of Claremont, has been deputy chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Melissa R. McCormick and Julie A. Palafox to judgeships in the Orange County Superior Court. McCormick, 44, of Laguna Beach, has been a partner at Irell and Manella LLP since 2004, where she...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Songhai D. Miguda-Armstead, Timothy P. Dillon, Ronald F. Frank, Julian C. Recana, Lawrence P. Riff, Laura A. Seigle, Natalie P. Stone and Lisa K. Sepe-Wiesenfeld to judgeships in the Los...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Sonia Cortés to a judgeship in the Yolo County Superior Court. Cortés, 43, of Woodland, has been a senior deputy county counsel at the Yolo County Counsel’s Office since 2007, where she has...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Jeffrey S. Brand and Thomas J. Nixon to judgeships in the Alameda County Superior Court. Brand, 70, of Berkeley, has been a professor of law at the University of San Francisco School of Law...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Jeffrey R. Finigan to a judgeship in the San Mateo County Superior Court. Finigan, 47, of San Francisco, has served as a deputy district attorney at the San Mateo County District Attorney’s...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments. Jorge Jaramillo, 43, of San Francisco, has been appointed chief of the Office of Public Sector Non-Governmental Organization Coordination at the Governor’s Office of Emergency...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments. Joaquin Esquivel, 32, of Washington, D.C., has been appointed assistant secretary for federal water policy at the California Natural Resources Agency. Esquivel has been legislative...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments. Jeff Burdick, 65, of Coarsegold, has been appointed to the California Community Colleges Board of Governors. Burdick has been a professor of English at the State Center Community...