Judge Paez to go Senior

The Record reports With Paez Going Senior, 9th Circuit Faces Third Judicial Vacancy - Judge Richard Paez is taking senior status after more than two decades on the bench.

Judge Richard Paez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is taking senior status after 21 years on the bench.

Paez is the third Ninth Circuit judge to announce plans to go senior, a form of semi-retirement, this year. Judges Marsha Berzon in San Francisco and Susan Graber in Portland, Oregon, are both slated to pull back from full, active service when their successors are confirmed.

[5/13 update: the DJ has Richard A. Paez is 2nd California-based 9th Circuit judge to go into semi-retirement. The article lists other California-based 9th Circuit judges eligible for senior status: Fletcher, McKeown, Wardlaw, Smith, Callahan, and Ikuta.]