Oct. 23, 2026
Meehan's reasoning finds its way into high court rulings, state law
Justice Kathleen Meehan's opinions on plea agreements and transgender privacy influenced California Supreme Court decisions and legislation. The Fresno native, on the 5th District since 2017, faces voters Nov. 3.
When the 1994 Northridge earthquake smashed a cabinet of collectible china in her Beverly Hills home, Kathleen A. Meehan drove to work anyway, only to find her office parking garage had collapsed.
"My husband said, 'We've been talking about going back to Fresno. I say we go before the locusts. We've already had the fires, the flood and now an earthquake,'" she told the Daily Journal in 2023. They went.
Thirty-two years later, Meehan, on the 5th Dis...
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