Gov nominates Bromberg to the 6th DCA

Governor Gavin Newsom today announced his nomination of Daniel Bromberg to serve as an Associate Justice of the Sixth District Court of Appeal. 

Daniel Bromberg, 58, of Santa Clara County, has been nominated to serve as an Associate Justice of the Sixth District Court of Appeal. Bromberg has been a Partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP since 2021. He served as a Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary in the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom from 2019 to 2021. Bromberg was a Partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLC from 2005 to 2019 and was a Partner and Associate at Jones Day from 1994 to 2005. He was an Associate at Cahill, Gordon & Reindel LLP from 1992 to 1994. He served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Raymond Randolph at the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit from 1991 to 1992 and for the Honorable Louis F. Oberdorfer at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia from 1990 to 1991. Bromberg earned a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. He fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Franklin D. Elia. This position requires confirmation by the Commission on Judicial Appointments, which consists of Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Attorney General Rob Bonta and Senior Presiding Justice Mary J. Greenwood. Bromberg is a Democrat. The compensation for this position is $262,198.

The Recorder's article is Governor Names Pillsbury Appellate Leader, Former Legal Affairs Deputy, to Sixth District; the DJ has Newsom nominates to 6th District, 9 to superior courts:

The road to the California appellate bench often runs through the Horseshoe. That’s the name Capitol staffers have long given the U-shaped ground floor office occupied by California governors and their staffs. On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom named Daniel Bromberg, his former deputy legal affairs secretary, to the 6th District Court of Appeal. Bromberg joins a long list of recent appellate appointees who have worked for governors who appointed them, most prominently California Supreme Court Justice Joshua P. Groban and Martin J. Jenkins. Bromberg left the governor’s office last year to become a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.