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Apr. 26, 2024
Sacramento bar association marks historic milestone
Women now occupy the roles of chief judge of the federal court in Sacramento, presiding judge of the superior court and presiding judge of the 3rd District Court of Appeal.
Sacramento County Bar Association President Connor W. Olson began the organization’s 2024 Bench Bar Reception by noting that for the first time, the leaders of all three local courts were women. When she stepped up to the podium later in the evening, U.S. Eastern District of California Chief Judge Kimberly J. Mueller said that moment was decades in the making.
“That there are three women chiefs, chiefs or PJS, is not a result of good peop...