Appointments of note

Governor Newsom Announces Appointments

Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments:

• Gonzalo C. Martinez, 43, of Piedmont, has been appointed deputy judicial appointments secretary in the Office of the Governor. Martinez was a partner in the Appellate and Supreme Court practice group at Squire Patton Boggs in 2019. He served as a deputy solicitor general in the California Attorney General’s Office from 2017 to 2019. Martinez served as a law clerk at the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California in 2010 and at the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California in 2007. Martinez was an associate at Coblentz Patch Duffy and Bass from 2005 to 2007 and at Morrison & Foerster LLP from 2003 to 2005. He is a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco and the Hispanic National Bar Association, and is a lawyer representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Council. Martinez earned a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School and a Master of Arts degree in English from Stanford University. This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $135,000.  Martinez is a Democrat. [10/11/19 update: Today's DJ has Squire Patton lawyer named deputy judicial appointments secretary]

• David A. Carrillo, 49, of Berkeley, has been appointed to the California Law Revision Commission. Carrillo has been executive director and lecturer in residence at the California Constitution Center, University of California, Berkeley School of Law since 2012. He served as a deputy attorney general at the California Attorney General’s Office from 2001 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2012. He was a deputy city attorney in the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office from 2003 to 2007, senior litigation associate at Seyfarth Shaw from 1999 to 2000 and a litigation associate at Nossaman LLP in 1999. Carrillo served as a deputy district attorney in the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office from 1995 to 1998. Carrillo earned Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, and Doctor of the Science of Jurisprudence degrees from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. This position requires Senate confirmation and the compensation is $100 per diem. Carrillo is a Democrat.