Only one sitting judge in the Bay Area faces an election challenge this June: Marin County Superior Court Judge James Chou hopes to ward off a self-labeled “country lawyer” critical of the local bench, bar leaders and the appointment process.

Chou is a former San Francisco prosecutor and assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District appointed to the bench in 2010 by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He says he is “very proud” of the endorsements he’s received from S.F. lawyers, past presidents of the Marin County Bar Association and all of the county’s sitting judges.

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