Governor Names Judges to San Francisco and Sutter Superior Courts

[Judi Lynn]

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Friday, September 26, 2003

Governor Names Judges to San Francisco and Sutter Superior Courts

By a MetNews Staff Writer


Gov. Gray Davis yesterday named an assistant U.S. attorney to the San Francisco Superior Court and a deputy district attorney to the Sutter Superior Court.

Named to replace San Francisco Superior Court Judge Alfred Chiantelli, who retired, was Assistant U.S. Attorney Suzanne G. Ramos for the Northern District of California. Sutter Deputy District Attorney Brian R. Aronson will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Timothy Evans.

Ramos, 39, is a former attorney with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. She also served as counsel for the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee and in the Clinton Administration from 1993 to 1995, first in the Department of Education and then in the Vice Presidentís Office.

After working from 1995 to 1997 with the Washington firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Ramos returned to California and joined the United States Attorneyís Office in San Diego. She transferred to the San Francisco office in 1999.

According to Judicial Appointments Secretary Burt Pines, Ramos will become the first Latina to serve on the San Francisco Superior Court.
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Friday, September 26, 2003

Four Jurists Confirmed for Southern California Appellate Posts

By KENNETH OFGANG, Staff Writer/Appellate Courts

Four women were unanimously confirmed yesterday by the Commission on Judicial Appointments to fill Court of Appeal seats in the two Southern California districts.
Following hearings and confirmation votes at the Ronald Reagan Building in Los Angeles, Justice Judith McConnell of the Fourth District’s Div. One was sworn in as presiding justice of that division, Joan Irion as an associate justice of that division to succeed McConnell, Laurie Zelon as a justice of this district’s Div. Seven, and Madeleine Flier as a justice of this district’s Div. Eight.

All three of the new associate justices were elevated from trial courts—Irion from the San Diego Superior Court, Zelon and Flier from the Los Angeles Superior Court. (snip)

Several participants in the hearings noted the historic nature of the occasion. Never before have four women been confirmed to Court of Appeal positions on the same day.

(snip) Presiding Justice Joan Dempsey Klein of this district’s Div. Three, a member of the commission, said it was a “red-letter day.” Klein, herself a pioneering jurist who helped found the National Association of Women Judges, praised Gov. Gray Davis for having the “perspicacity to recognize that these women have something special to offer. (snip/...)

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Gray Davis has been busy!