California Supreme Court
Career Highlights: Joined ADR Services as mediator, March 2023; joined Public Policy Institute of California, January 2023; served as California chief justice, 2011-2022, appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in July 2010; associate justice, 3rd District Court of Appeal, 2005-11; judge, Sacramento County Superior Court, 1997-05; judge, Sacramento County Municipal Court, 1990-97; deputy legal and legislative affairs director for Gov. George Deukmejian, 1988-90; deputy district attorney, Sacramento County, 1984-88.
Law School: UC Davis School of Law, 1984
Career Highlights: Joined ADR Services as mediator, March 2023; joined Public Policy Institute of California, January 2023; served as California chief justice, 2011-2022, appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in July 2010; associate justice, 3rd District Court of Appeal, 2005-11; judge, Sacramento County Superior Court, 1997-05; judge, Sacramento County Municipal Court, 1990-97; deputy legal and legislative affairs director for Gov. George Deukmejian, 1988-90; deputy district attorney, Sacramento County, 1984-88.
Law School: UC Davis School of Law, 1984
By Emily Green
Daily Journal Staff Writer
At the State Bar annual conference in Monterey last month, in between ceremonial responsibilities and symposiums on the judiciary's budget crisis, Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye crowded around a table in a dark, noisy bar with a top adviser and two representatives from Justice at Stake, a nonprofit group promoting impartial courts.
She looked more political strategist than judge as Bert Brandenb... (continued)
