Sacramento, California - Following the inauguration of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., he will swear in Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Leondra R. Kruger to the California Supreme Court in Sacramento on Monday, January 5, 2015.
Governor Brown nominated Cuéllar and Kruger to the California Supreme Court earlier this year. Today, Kruger was confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments, composed of Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Attorney General Kamala D. Harris and senior presiding justice of the state Court of Appeal Joan Dempsey Klein. Cuéllar was confirmed by the commission in August.