SACRAMENTO – Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday appointed 19 trial court judges, including three in the Bay Area.

Former University of San Francisco School of Law dean Jeffrey Brand will be joining the bench in Alameda County. It’s the second Brown appointment for Brand, who once served as an administrative law judge for the state’s Agricultural Labor Relations Board. Thomas Nixon was also named a judge on the Alameda County Superior Court. Nixon has been a commissioner for the court since 2002.