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...