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Law Practice

Dec. 15, 2007

Increasing Diversity on the Bench

In the 10 months Sharon Majors-Lewis has been the governor's judicial appointments secretary, she seems to have improved the odds for qualified women and minority candidates seeking the bench.

By Laura Ernde
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SACRAMENTO - Shortly after becoming the governor's judicial appointments secretary, Sharon Majors-Lewis witnessed something that seemed to confirm critics' worst fears about the judicial selection process.
      One of the governor's secret local nominating committees - she won't say which one - rejected a candidate based on the say-so of just on...

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