Courken George Deukmejian Jr. was an American politician who served as the 35th governor of California from 1983 to 1991. A member of the Republican Party,he was the state's first governor of Armenian descent.
The Supreme Court of California is the highest and final court of appeals in the courts of the U.S. state of California. It is headquartered in San Francisco at the Earl Warren Building,but it regularly holds sessions in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Its decisions are binding on all other California state courts. Since 1850,the court has issued many influential decisions in a variety of areas including torts,property,civil and constitutional rights,and criminal law.
Rose Elizabeth Bird was the 25th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. Her career was marked by firsts. She was the first female clerk of the Nevada Supreme Court,the first female deputy public defender in Santa Clara County,the first woman to serve in the California State Cabinet,and the first female Chief Justice of California.
David Newton Eagleson was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from 1987 to 1991.
Josephine "Joyce" Luther Kennard is a Dutch-American judge and former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. Appointed by Governor George Deukmejian in 1989,she was the longest-serving justice sitting on the Court at the time of her 2014 retirement,having been retained by California's voters three times—first to fill the unexpired term in 1990,followed by second and third consecutive twelve-year terms in 1994 and 2006.
Ronald Marc George is an American jurist. He previously served as the 27th Chief Justice of California from 1996 to 2011. Governor Pete Wilson appointed George as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1991 and elevated George to Chief Justice in 1996.
Morey Stanley Mosk was an American jurist,politician,and attorney. He served as Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court for 37 years (1964–2001),the longest tenure in that court's history.
Carol Ann Corrigan is an associate justice of the California Supreme Court.
Ming William Chin is an American attorney and former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California,serving from March 1,1996 to August 31,2020.
Carlos Roberto Moreno is an American jurist who is the former United States Ambassador to Belize,serving from June 24,2014 to January 20,2017. Previously,he served as a judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California from February 4,1998,to October 18,2001,and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from October 18,2001,to February 28,2011. Following his retirement from the bench,Moreno was counsel with Irell &Manella from 2011 to 2013. He has been a self-employed JAMS arbitrator since returning from Belize in 2017.
Joseph Raymond Grodin is a lawyer,law professor,and a former Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal and an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California. Grodin lost his Supreme Court seat in a contentious 1986 retention election that also removed Justice Cruz Reynoso and Chief Justice Rose Bird.
Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye is an American lawyer and jurist who was the 28th Chief Justice of California and is the president/CEO of the Public Policy Institute of California. Nominated by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for California's highest judicial office on July 22,2010,and retained in office by California voters on November 2,2010,she was sworn in on January 3,2011 as California's first Filipino and first Woman of Color to serve as California's Chief Justice. Prior to her appointment as chief justice,Cantil-Sakauye had served in judicial offices on California's appellate and trial courts. On July 27,2022,she announced she would retire and not run for another 12 year term on the court in November and step down on January 1,2023,leaving Governor Newsom to appoint her replacement. On September 28,2022,the Public Policy Institute of California announced that Cantil-Sakauye would become its president and chief executive officer,effective January 1,2023.
Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuéllar is an American scholar,academic leader,public official,jurist,and nonprofit executive currently serving as the 10th president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was previously a Justice of the Supreme Court of California and an executive branch official in the Clinton and Obama administrations,the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford University,director of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies,and co-chair of the U.S. Department of Education's Equity and Excellence Commission. His publications address problems in American public law,international affairs and international law,artificial intelligence,public health and safety law,and institutions and organizations. He was elected to the President and Fellows of Harvard College in February 2019 and serves as chair of the board of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. He was born in Northern Mexico.
Marshall Francis McComb was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from January 1956 to May 2,1977.
Malcolm Millar Lucas was an American jurist and attorney who served as the 26th Chief Justice of California. He previously served as a trial judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court and United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Leondra Reid Kruger is an American judge who is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. A native of South Pasadena,California,she graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School. Kruger then clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens,and subsequently worked in private practice and as a professor. She served as acting Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States from 2010 to 2011,and worked in the Office of Legal Counsel. In 2014,California Governor Jerry Brown nominated Kruger to a seat on the Supreme Court of California. She was confirmed,and was sworn in on January 5,2015.
Armand M. Arabian was an American lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from February 3,1990,to February 28,1996.
Jesse William Curtis Sr. was an American attorney who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from January 1,1926 to January 1,1945,and whose family were pioneer settlers of San Bernardino,California.
John Arthur Arguelles was an American attorney and associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from March 18,1987,to March 1,1989. Arguelles was the second Latino to serve on California's high court and was one of the founding members of the Mexican American Bar Association of Los Angeles.
Raymond Lawrence Sullivan was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from December 20,1966,to January 19,1977.
