SAN FRANCISCO Governor Jerry Brown has asked the State Bar to vet James Humes, his executive secretary, for a vacancy on the First District Court of Appeal. Lawyers around the Bay Area started receiving evaluation forms this past week from the bar’s Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation.
If Brown follows through by appointing him and it would seem like a shoo-in given the governor’s own experience working closely with Humes for the past six years he would become the first openly gay judge on the California court of appeal.
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