Two Bay Area Trial Judges Appointed to First District Appellate Bench
In his latest appellate announcement, Gov. Jerry Brown picked Alameda County Superior Court Judge Ioana Petrou and San Francisco Superior Court Judge Tracie Brown.
November 21, 2018 at 03:53 PM
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Gov. Jerry Brown. Credit: Jason Doiy/ The Recorder
Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday filled two vacancies on the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco with trial judges from Bay Area courts.
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Ioana Petrou will join the appellate court's third division, replacing Justice Stuart Pollak, who was recently nominated to become presiding justice of the First District's Division Four. Before being named to the Alameda County court in 2010, Petrou was as assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of California for six years.
Petrou also worked two years as counsel at O'Melveny & Myers and completed a two-year stint as assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York in 2002. Her resume also includes three years as associate at Foley & Lardner and a year each at Weissburg & Aronson and Proskauer Rose in the mid-1990s.
The governor also nominated San Francisco Superior Court Judge Tracie Brown to the First District bench. Brown was appointed to the San Francisco trial court in 2013. Prior to that, she served 11 years as an assistant U.S. attorney in California's Northern District. She was an associate at Cooley Godward Kronish from 1997 to 2002, a law clerk for Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1998 to 1999 and an associate at Morrison & Foerster from 1996 to 1997.
Brown will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Timothy Reardon.
Petrou and Brown must be confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments, whose members are Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Senior Presiding Justice Anthony Kline of the First District Court of Appeal.
The commission announced Friday it will hold a public confirmation hearing for state Supreme Court nominee Joshua Groban on Dec. 21 in San Francisco.
The governor's announcement is posted in full below:
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