Two days after voters approved Patricia Guerrero to become California’s first Latina Supreme Court chief justice in January, a state panel approved Kelli Evans as the high court’s first openly lesbian justice.
Justices go before voters, but face no opposition, in the first gubernatorial election after their appointment, and again if they fill an unexpired 12-year term for a previous justice.
Three associate justices on the state's high court were retained in this election:on the state’s high court. He was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020., who was appointed by Brown in 2011.
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