Sacramento, California -  Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Judge Gail Ruderman Feuer as associate justice, Division Seven of the Second District Court of Appeal, and Judge Allison M. Danner as associate justice of the Sixth District Court of Appeal.

Second District Court of Appeal

Gail Ruderman Feuer, 58, of Los Angeles, has been appointed associate justice, Division Seven of the Second District Court of Appeal. Feuer has served as a judge at the Los Angeles County Superior Court since 2005. She was a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council from 1993 to 2005 and served as a deputy attorney general at the California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General from 1987 to 1993. Feuer was an associate at O’Donnell and Gordon from 1985 to 1987. Feuer served as a law clerk for the Honorable A. Wallace Tashima at the U.S. District Court, Central District of California from 1984 to 1985. She earned a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Albany. She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Norvell F. Woods. This position requires confirmation by the Commission on Judicial Appointments. The Commission consists of Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Senior Presiding Justice Arthur Gilbert. Feuer is a Democrat.

Sixth District Court of Appeal

Allison M. Danner, 47, of Palo Alto, has been appointed associate justice of the Sixth District Court of Appeal. Danner has served as a judge at the Santa Clara County Superior Court since 2012. She served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of California from 2007 to 2012, taking a leave to serve as an attorney-adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2009 to 2010. Danner was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law in 2006 and a professor at Vanderbilt Law School from 2001 to 2007. She served as a law clerk for the Honorable John Paul Stevens at the U.S. Supreme Court from 1998 to 1999 and as a law clerk for the Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr. at the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit from 1997 to 1998. Danner earned a Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College. She fills the vacancy created by the elevation of Justice Mary J. Greenwood to presiding justice of the Sixth District Court of Appeal. This position requires confirmation by the Commission on Judicial Appointments. The Commission consists of Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Presiding Justice Mary J. Greenwood. Danner is a Democrat.

The compensation for each of these positions is $228,918.