1st District pro tem update

The following are currently sitting on assignment in the 1st District:

• Judge Arturo Castro of Alameda County Superior Court will be sitting pro tempore in Division One until April 30, 2024.
• Judge Cindee F. Mayfield of Mendocino County Superior Court will be sitting pro tempore in Division Two until March 7, 2024.
• Judge Charles A. Smiley III of Alameda County Superior Court will be sitting pro tempore in Division Four until March 31, 2024.

Law.com has Supreme Court Bar’s Breakout Lawyer This Term Started Out In Journalism -- Easha Anand, now co-director of Stanford Law School's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, is scheduled to argue three cases this term.

• The 38-year-old has been the high court bar’s breakout talent this term after joining Stanford Law School in 2023 as a co-director of the school’s prestigious Supreme Court clinic alongside veteran advocates Pamela Karlan and Jeffrey Fisher.
• After graduating from Yale University, Anand worked as a reporter for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans and the Wall Street Journal but later struggled to find a job in California
• she obtained two prestigious federal clerkships: one for Judge Paul J. Watford on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and later for Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court.