Governor
Brown Appoints Two Court of Appeal Justices
SACRAMENTO
– Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Judge Ioana
Petrou as associate justice, Division Three and Judge Tracie L. Brown as
associate justice, Division Four of the First District Court of Appeal.
First District Court of Appeal
Ioana
Petrou, 50, of Oakland, has been appointed associate justice, Division Three of
the First District Court of Appeal. Petrou has served as a judge at the Alameda
County Superior Court since 2010. She served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney at
the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of California from 2004 to 2010
and was counsel at O’Melveny and Myers LLP from 2002 to 2004. Petrou served as
an Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of
New York from 2000 to 2002. She was an associate at Foley and Lardner LLP from
1996 to 1999, at Weissburg and Aronson from 1995 to 1996 and at Proskauer Rose
LLP from 1994 to 1995. Petrou served as a judicial extern for the Honorable
Sheila Prell Sonenshine at the Fourth District Court of Appeal in 1992. She
earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley School
of Law and two Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of California,
Berkeley. She will fill the vacancy created by the elevation, subject to
confirmation, of Justice Stuart R. Pollak to presiding justice, Division 4 of
the First District Court of Appeal. This position requires confirmation by the
Commission on Judicial Appointments. The Commission consists of Chief Justice
Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Senior Presiding
Justice J. Anthony Kline. Petrou is a Democrat.
Tracie
L. Brown, 47, of San Francisco, has been appointed associate justice, Division
Four of the First District Court of Appeal. Brown has served as a judge at the
San Francisco County Superior Court since 2013. She served as an Assistant U.S.
Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of California from
2002 to 2013 and was an associate at Cooley Godward Kronish LLP from 1997 to
2002. Brown served as a law clerk for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown at the
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit from 1998 to 1999 and was an associate at
Morrison and Foerster LLP from 1996 to 1997. She earned a Juris Doctor degree
from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and a Bachelor of
Arts degree from Harvard College. She fills the vacancy created by the
retirement of Justice Timothy A. Reardon. This position requires confirmation
by the Commission on Judicial Appointments. The Commission consists of Chief
Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Senior
Presiding Justice J. Anthony Kline. Brown is a Democrat.
The
compensation for each of these positions is $237,365.
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