Governor
Newsom Announces Judicial Appointments
Governor Gavin Newsom today announced his nomination of three
Court of Appeal Justices: Justice Brian Currey as Presiding Justice of the
Second District Court of Appeal, Division Four; Judge Helen Zukin as an
Associate Justice of the Second District Court of Appeal, Division Four; and
Judge Martha Gooding as an Associate Justice of the Fourth District Court of
Appeal, Division Three.
The Governor also announced his appointment of 27 Superior Court Judges, which
include one in Alameda County; one in Contra Costa County; one in Fresno
County; one in Kern County; one in Kings County; seven in Los Angeles County;
one in Orange County; two in Sacramento County; one in San Bernardino County;
two in San Diego County; one in San Mateo County; one in Santa Clara County;
one in Santa Cruz County; three in Sonoma County; one in Stanislaus County; one
in Tulare County; and one in Tuolumne County.
Second District Court
of Appeal
Justice Brian Currey, of Los Angeles County, has been nominated
to serve as Presiding Justice of the Second District Court of Appeal, Division
Four, where he has served as an Associate Justice since 2018. He served as a
Judge at the Los Angeles County Superior Court from 2014 to 2018. Justice
Currey was Of Counsel at O’Melveny and Myers LLP from 2013 to 2014. He served
as Deputy Mayor for Economic and Business Policy in the Los Angeles Mayor’s
Office in 2013 and was Counsel to the Mayor from 2010 to 2013. Justice Currey
was a Partner at O’Melveny and Myers LLP from 1989 to 2010, where he was an
Associate from 1981 to 1989. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from the
University of Virginia School of Law. Justice Currey fills the vacancy created
by the retirement of Presiding Justice Nora Manella. This position requires
confirmation by the Commission on Judicial Appointments, which consists of
Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero, Attorney General Rob Bonta and Senior
Presiding Justice Arthur Gilbert. Justice Currey is a Democrat.
Judge Helen Zukin, of Los Angeles County, has been nominated to
serve as an Associate Justice of the Second District Court of Appeal, Division
Four. She has served as a Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court since
2018. Judge Zukin was a Partner at Kiesel Law LLP from 2010 to 2018, where she
was Of Counsel from 2006 to 2010. She was a Sole Practitioner from 1995 to 2006
and a Partner at Simke, Chodos, Silberfeld and Anteau Inc. from 1992 to 1995,
where she was an Associate from 1990 to 1992. Judge Zukin was an Associate at
Greene, O’Reilly, Agnew and Broillet from 1985 to 1990. She earned a Juris
Doctor degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. She is being nominated to
fill the vacancy that will be created pending confirmation of Justice Brian
Currey’s nomination as Presiding Justice of the Second District Court of
Appeal, Division Four. This position requires confirmation by the Commission on
Judicial Appointments, which consists of Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero,
Attorney General Rob Bonta and Senior Presiding Justice Arthur Gilbert. Judge
Zukin is a Democrat.
Fourth District Court
of Appeal
The compensation for each of these positions is $264,542.
Marsha Bipin Amin, of San Diego County, has been appointed to
serve as a Judge in the San Diego County Superior Court. Amin has served as a
Managing Attorney at the Fourth District Court of Appeal since 2018 and was a
Senior Appellate Court Attorney there from 2011 to 2018. She was an Associate
at Procopio from 2006 to 2010 and served as a Law Clerk at the U.S. District
Court, Southern District of California from 2005 to 2006. Amin earned a Juris
Doctor degree from the University of San Diego School of Law and a Master of
Social Work degree from the University of Southern California. She fills the
vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Laura Halgren. Amin is a Democrat.
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