Celebrating Judge Kelli Evans’s Appointment
How opportunity met preparation.
2022 has been a good year in spite of much political unrest, racial division, Covid and deaths, political brutality on BIOPC, election deniers, conspiracy theories, far-right Supreme Court justices, and the list goes on.
Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson, a Supreme Court Justice who was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Biden on February 25, 2022, hopefully, will bring an unbiased agenda to the Supreme Court that has been severely tainted by many of the appointees by Trump who appear to lean toward his agenda even as a former-president.
Justice Brown Jackson was confirmed on April 7, 2022, and sworn into office on June 30. Recently, she recused herself from a case that reflected her former alma mater, unlike Justice Thomas who faced many biased situations but refused to rescue himself.
History in the courts continues an upheaval with history-making appointments. Judge Kelli Evans won confirmation as an associate justice on California’s Supreme Court. She will take the seat of Justice Patricia Guerrero who will now serve as chief justice. Preparation meets opportunity.
Judge Evans, the high court’s first openly lesbian justice, was one of the two picks of Governor Gavin Newson for the California Supreme Court, along with Associate…
