Two Indian Americans have been proposed as justices for the Superior Court by California Governor Gavin Newsom. Marsha Bipin Amin will preside over the San Diego County Superior Court, and Sweena Pannu will preside over the Stanislaus County Superior Court.
On May 19, the Governor’s office in Sacramento revealed their nominees, which included a list of 27 Superior Court Judges and three Court of Appeal Justices.
Since 2020, Pannu of Stanislaus County has worked as a deputy county counsel in the office of the county counsel. From 2006 until 2020, she worked as a deputy public defender in the Stanislaus County Public Defender’s Office.
Democratic attorney Pannu worked for M.L. Sarin from 1996 to 2004. The University of Aberdeen School of Law awarded Pannu a Master of Laws. She fills the position left by Judge Thomas D. Zeff’s resignation.
The San Diego County Superior Court has appointed Marsha Bipin Amin, a San Diego County resident and fellow Democrat, to the position of judge.
Amin worked there from 2011 to 2018 as a senior appellate court attorney before becoming the Fourth District Court of Appeal’s managing attorney in 2018.
In addition to working as a law clerk at the Southern District of California’s US District Court from 2005 to 2006, she was an associate at Procopio from 2006 to 2010.
Amin graduated from the University of Southern California with a Master of Social Work degree and from the University of San Diego School of Law with a Juris Doctor. She fills the position left by Judge Laura Halgren’s retirement.
