Press Releases

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Marla J. Miller to Division Two and Jon B. Streeter to Division Four of the First District Court of Appeal. Miller, 59, of San Francisco, has served as a judge at the San Francisco County...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Hector E. Gutierrez, Colin P. Leis, Lillian Vega Jacobs, Rob B. Villeza, Shirley K. Watkins and Michael E. Whitaker to judgeships in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Gutierrez, 40, of...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Susanne S. Cho and James T. Latting to judgeships in the Riverside County Superior Court. Cho, 48, of Palm Desert, has been an attorney at the Law Offices of Rodney Lee Soda since 2004. She...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Gassia Apkarian and Craig E. Arthur to judgeships in the Orange County Superior Court. Apkarian, 47, of Mission Viejo, has been senior attorney and president at Apkarian Defense APC since...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of M. Bruce Smith as associate justice of the Fifth District Court of Appeal. Smith, 58, of Fresno, has served as supervising judge at the Fresno County Superior Court since 2012, where he has...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Thomas E. Stevens and Noël Wise to judgeships in the Alameda County Superior Court. Stevens, 48, of Piedmont, has served as chief at the Oakland Branch of the U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments. Thomas Gibson, 47, of Sacramento, has been appointed general counsel at the California Natural Resources Agency. Gibson has been general counsel at the California Department of Fish...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments. Candace Murch, 49, of Elk Grove, has been appointed principal labor relations officer at the California Department of Human Resources. Murch has served as chief at the California...

SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments. Alene Shimazu, 52, of Sacramento, has been appointed director of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Division of Administrative Services. Shimazu has served...