
Career Highlights: Appointed as Sacramento Superior Court judge by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Oct. 8, 2022; deputy district attorney, Sacramento County, 2008-22; law clerk, Freidberg & Parker LLP, 2006-07
Law School: McGeorge School of Law, 2007
SACRAMENTO -- Judge Satnam S. Rattu's family may not fit the typical image of California's immigrant farmworkers. But that's what Rattu's grandfather was when he arrived in California half a century ago, first in the Imperial Valley and later Yuba City.
"In India and Punjab, it's very agrarian," Rattu said. "Everybody farms. And so, when you move to a new country, you try to find something you're good at. In Yuba City, there'... (continued)