SAN FRANCISCO — Miguel Marquez spent the Fourth of July weekend in Southern California last year, filling out judicial applications with his sister. So it was fitting that the Santa Clara County counsel’s confirmation Thursday to the Sixth District Court of Appeal was a family affair, with sister Raquel — now a judge in Riverside — on hand, along with other siblings, his parents and 17 members of his extended family.

His sister “led the way to law school, and has helped me every step of the way of my legal career,” said Marquez, the son of Mexican immigrants who attended Head Start as a child, Harvard as an adult, and now becomes the San Jose-based Sixth District’s first Latino justice.

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