It’s not often that state governors look to legal educators to fill vacancies on their highest courts, but a handful of academics have made the leap in recent years or are poised to do so:
- Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday nominated Ken Gormley, dean of the Duquesne University School of Law, to fill an open slot on that state’s Supreme Court.
- Former Stanford law professor Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar was sworn in as a justice of the California Supreme Court on Jan. 5 after being nominated by Gov. Jerry Brown and confirmed to the post in August.
- Former University of California, Berkeley School of Law professor Goodwin Liu was sworn in as a justice of the California Supreme Court in 2011, following his nomination by Brown.
Gormley told NLJ affiliate The Legal Intelligencer that he would serve in an interim capacity and has agreed not to run in next year’s election. (Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices are elected to 10-year terms.)
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