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California Lawmakers Press Newsom to Name First LGBTQ Justice
California’s appellate courts include four openly gay justices. Justices Therese Stewart and Jim Humes serve on the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco while Justice Marsha Slough was confirmed to the Fourth District appellate court in Riverside in 2016 and Justice Luis Lavin joined the Second District in 2015.
Sixty-two judges and justices throughout the California bench identified themselves as LGBT, according to demographic statistics for 2018, the latest year available.