Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Roger C. Chan to a judgeship in the San Francisco County Superior Court.

Chan, 43, of San Francisco, has been executive director at East Bay Children’s Law Offices since 2009. He served as a deputy public defender at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office from 2003 to 2009 and from 1999 to 2000. Chan served as an attorney at the Alameda County Public Defender’s Office from 2000 to 2003 and in 1999. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley. Chan fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Richard A. Kramer. He is a Democrat.

The compensation for this position is $189,041.