Career Highlights: Appointed to the Sacramento County Superior Court by Gov. Gavin Newsom, January 2023; Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary, Office of the Governor, 2017-2023; Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2016-2017; White House Fellow, 2015-2016; Deputy Attorney General, California Attorney General's Office, 2012-2015; law clerk for the Honorable Beverly Martin at the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 2011-2012; Legislative Aide and Senate Fellow, Office of State Senator Joe Simitian, 2004-2006.
Law School: Harvard Univ Law School; Cambridge MA, 2011
SACRAMENTO -- Rei R. Onishi never thought about becoming a judge until he worked for one. In 2011, just after graduating from Harvard Law School, he moved to Atlanta to spend a year under the tutelage of Judge Beverly B. Martin at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
"I remember on the first day I was being sworn in as a law clerk," he said. "The judge I was working for said something to the effect of, 'Hey, maybe you'll be doing this one day... (continued)
