Governor Appointments

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Christine A. Carringer to a judgeship in the Solano County Superior Court. Carringer, 59, of Fairfield, has been staff counsel at Katchis Harris and Yempuku since 2009. She was of counsel at...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Lawrence E. Ornell to a judgeship in the Sonoma County Superior Court. Ornell, 52, of Santa Rosa, has served as a commissioner at the Sonoma County Superior Court since 2004. He served as a...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Hugh K. Swift to a judgeship in the Calaveras County Superior Court. Swift, 54, of Angels Camp, has been a court executive officer at the Calaveras County Superior Court since 2011. He served...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of John C. Cope to a judgeship in the Contra Costa County Superior Court. Cope, 50, of Benicia, has been a deputy district attorney at the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office since...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Paul C. Lo to a judgeship in the Merced County Superior Court. Lo, 45, of Merced, has been a solo practitioner since 2003. He held multiple positions at Allen Polgar Proietti and Fagalde LLP...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of James K. Voysey to a judgeship in the Santa Barbara County Superior Court. Voysey, 63, of Santa Maria, has been an assistant public defender at the Santa Barbara County Public Defender’s...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Mark K. Hanasono, Daniel Juarez, Shelley L. Kaufman and Dorothy C. Kim to judgeships in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Hanasono, 39, of Los Angeles, has served as a deputy alternate...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Gary L. Moorhead and Fred W. Slaughter to judgeships in the Orange County Superior Court. Moorhead, 63, of Laguna Niguel, has been a managing partner at Pohlson and Moorhead LLP since 1980....

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Dean Benjamini to a judgeship in the Riverside County Superior Court. Benjamini, 47, of Bermuda Dunes, has been an assistant public defender at the Riverside County Law Offices of the Public...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Cindy D. Davis and Daniel G. Lamborn to judgeships in the San Diego County Superior Court. Davis, 50, of Imperial Beach, has been a superior court commissioner at the San Diego County...