Government,
California Supreme Court
Mar. 30, 2017
Jerry Brown's legacy at the high court
In August, Jerry Brown will have the opportunity to appoint his 11th Supreme Court justice. But the numbers aren't the end of the story.
Joseph R. Grodin
Distinguished Emeritus Professor
Hastings College of the Law
Yale Law School
Joseph was appointed to the California Court of Appeal, and then to the California Supreme Court, by Gov. Jerry Brown. In 1986 he was rejected by voters in a retention election, along with Chief Justice Rose Bird and Justice Cruz Reynoso. Since then he has been teaching at Hastings College of the Law, where he is now distinguished emeritus professor. He is founder of Lawyers Allied to Uphold the Rule of Law (LAUROL).
When Justice Kathryn Werdegar retires at the end of August, Gov. Jerry Brown will have the opportunity to appoint his 11th justice to the California Supreme Court. Already, he has appointed more justices than any governor in California history, surpassing the record previously held jointly by his father, Pat Brown, and Gov. George Deukmejian (eight each). But then Jerry Brown has had more time to devote to that project. Counting his first two terms in office, he is now on his fourth term, ...
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