The California Supreme Court's chief justice said that she will not seek a second 12-year term in November
- Justice Martin Jenkins, the first openly gay Black man on the state's high court. He was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020 to replace Justice Ming Chin.
Cantil-Sakauye is one of two remaining justices appointed by a Republican. Schwarzenegger also appointed Associate Justice Carol Corrigan. The judicial council received unusual attention during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic when it ordered $0 bail for misdemeanors and lower-level felonies.
He also credited her for setting the court's collegial tone and what he called its "remarkable degree of unanimity" even on controversial cases. The daughter of farmworkers, she recalled in a statement that her first exposure to the justice system "was when my family faced eviction from our home and my mother felt helpless." And as a wife, she said, "I felt the impact of unjust Japanese Internment on my in-laws."
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