{"id":34,"date":"2011-11-01T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T04:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/?p=34"},"modified":"2014-08-26T11:32:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T15:32:09","slug":"the-new-chief-justice-of-the-california-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2011\/11\/01\/the-new-chief-justice-of-the-california-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much has been written in the last year about California\u2019s new Chief Justice, Tani Cantil-Sakauye, who was sworn in January 3, 2011 to replace Chief Justice Ron George.<\/p>\n

Here are five interesting facts about California’s Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye that caught our eye:
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  1. She\u2019s the first Filipino-American justice on the California Supreme Court, and just the sixth woman to serve on the Court. Her elevation creates a majority of women on the Court (Cantil-Sakauye, Kennard, Werdegar and Corrigan) for the first time in California history. With the recent appointment of Justice Goodwin Liu, the Supreme Court also has a majority of Asian-American justices (Cantil-Sakauye, Kennard, Chin and Liu), another first for California.<\/li>\n
  2. She\u2019s the daughter of Filipino-American parents who were agricultural workers in the Sacramento area and both her parents, and the parents of her Japanese-American husband (Mark Sakauye, a retired Sacramento police lieutenant), spent four years in internment camps during World War II. Source: UC Davis Magazine<\/a> [http:\/\/ucdavismagazine.ucdavis.edu\/issues\/fall10\/supreme_justice.html]<\/li>\n
  3. She\u2019s a Cal Aggie times two, having graduated from the University of California, Davis with a degree in Rhetoric in 1980, and then a law degree from U.C. Davis King Hall School of Law in 1984. One of her law school classmates is Darryl Steinberg, California\u2019s Senate Pro Tem. Source: UC Davis Magazine<\/a> [http:\/\/ucdavismagazine.ucdavis.edu\/issues\/fall10\/supreme_justice.html]<\/li>\n
  4. As a teenager, she once was a babysitter for the family of George Deukmejian, then a state senator. Years later, it was Governor Deukmejian who first appointed her to the municipal court bench in 1990, apparently unaware of the connection. [\u201cMy Friend The Chief Justice\u201d by Justice Vance Raye, California Litigation<\/span>, vol.24, No.2 (2011)]<\/li>\n
  5. She knows how to play her cards, having worked as a blackjack dealer at Harrah\u2019s in Lake Tahoe for a short period after law school. Source: California Bar Journal <\/a>[http:\/\/www.calbarjournal.com\/December2010\/TopHeadlines\/TH1.aspx]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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