
Career Highlights: Appointed to the US District Court for the Central District of California by Gov. Gavin Newsom and confirmed May 2022; appointed to Riverside Superior Court, 2013; California Indian Legal Services; Southwest Justice Center; California Department of Social Services
Law School: Stanford Law School
By Laurinda Keys
Daily Journal Staff Writer
RIVERSIDE - Judge Sunshine Sykes grew up in two worlds and draws on both as she supervises a civil calendar in Riverside County Superior Court.
She was born in Tuba City, Arizona to teen-aged parents, her mother a Navaho and her father the white son of the Indian boarding school superintendent on the Navaho Reservation. Both parents were able to attend the University of Arizona and get master's degrees. The... (continued)