SoCal representation on the Cal Supreme Court?

Today's Recorder presents What's Taking Jerry Brown So Long to Pick a Supreme Court Justice? Gov. Jerry Brown's still mulling a Supreme Court pick, nearly a year after Kathryn Mickle Werdegar announced she was stepping down. The article notes two Court of Appeal Justices who might fill the seat:

• James Humes, presiding justice of the First District Court of Appeal’s Division One in San Francisco, is almost always mentioned in legal circles as the front-runner. He spent a career in the state attorney general’s office and served as Brown’s chief deputy in the Department of Justice. Humes then followed Brown to the governor’s office in 2011, serving as his executive secretary for two years before he joined the appellate court.
• Lamar Baker, an associate justice on the Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles, could be another likely contender. Like Brown’s last Supreme Court pick, Justice Leondra Kruger, Baker is young (39) and a former Obama administration lawyer. And like Kruger, Cuellar, Justice Goodwin Liu and, yes, Brown himself, Baker is a Yale Law School graduate. He’s also tied to a Los Angeles-based court, an appealing trait for those who would like to see Southern California represented more on a high court dominated by Northern California justices.