California Supreme Court
Career Highlights: Retired October 31, 2021; Appointed to California Supreme Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2015; director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, 2013-2015; Stanley Morrison professor of law, Stanford Law School, 2012-2015; special assistant to the president for justice and regulatory policy, The White House, Domestic Policy Council, 2009-2010; co-chair, Immigration Policy Working Group, 2008-2009; professor of law and Deane Johnson faculty scholar, Stanford Law School, 2007-2012; associate professor of law, Stanford Law School, 2003-2006; assistant professor of law, Stanford Law School, 2001-2003; law clerk to Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 2000-2001; senior advisor to the undersecretary, Office of Enforcement, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1997-1999
Law School: Yale Law School, 1997
California Supreme Court
Career Highlights: Retired October 31, 2021; Appointed to California Supreme Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2015; director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, 2013-2015; Stanley Morrison professor of law, Stanford Law School, 2012-2015; special assistant to the president for justice and regulatory policy, The White House, Domestic Policy Council, 2009-2010; co-chair, Immigration Policy Working Group, 2008-2009; professor of law and Deane Johnson faculty scholar, Stanford Law School, 2007-2012; associate professor of law, Stanford Law School, 2003-2006; assistant professor of law, Stanford Law School, 2001-2003; law clerk to Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 2000-2001; senior advisor to the undersecretary, Office of Enforcement, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1997-1999
Law School: Yale Law School, 1997
California Supreme Court
Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar speaks during oral argument at the California Supreme Court in San Francisco in 2015.
SAN FRANCISCO -- In a remarkably smooth and speedy 45 minutes, state Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar's confirmation was, by all accounts, a breeze.
Speaking to a courtroom crowded with state and federal judges, Cuéllar joked that "trial court deference is a way of life" in his household, referring to his wife, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, and said he would take the same approach on the appellate bench. ... (continued)
