Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, chair of the Commission on Judicial Appointments, announced that the commission today confirmed four nominations to the California Courts of Appeal in San Francisco and San Jose. The hearings were held virtually for only the second time in the commission's history. The nominees were confirmed by unanimous vote of the three-member commission, which includes Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye (Chair); Attorney General Rob Bonta; and either Presiding Justice J. Anthony Kline (for First Appellate District appointees), or Presiding Justice Mary J. Greenwood (for Sixth Appellate District appointees):
- Justice Alison M. Tucher, as Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division 3 (San Francisco)
- Justice Teri L. Jackson, as Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division 5 (San Francisco)
- Judge Cynthia C. Lie, as Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, Sixth Appellate District (San Jose)
- Judge Charles E. Wilson II, as Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, Sixth Appellate District (San Jose)
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The DJ has Judicial confirmations swear in diverse collection of appointees
The group sworn in Monday include a Black former prosecutor from East Palo Alto, the daughter of Korean immigrants who worked as a federal public defender in San Jose, a Black woman whose family hails from Louisiana, and a white woman best known before joining the bench for persuading prosecutors to release a man convicted of murder.
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