Gov. Brown Appoints Moraga Man To Judgeship

SACRAMENTO, CA — As one of his last duties before leaving office, Gov. Jerry Brown appointed six new superior court judges to Bay Area courts last week, including two in Alameda County and one each in Contra Costa, San Francisco, Santa Clara and Solano counties.

Appointed to Alameda County Superior Court were Clifford T. Blakely Jr., 48, of Moraga, a deputy public defender in the county's Public Defender's Office, and Karin S. Schwartz, 54, of Sacramento, who has served as deputy director and chief counsel at the California Department of Public Health since 2013.

John P. Devine, 53, of Walnut Creek, who has been supervising deputy attorney general at the California Department of Justice since 2011, was appointed to the Contra Costa County Superior Court.

Devine, who is registered without party preference, is the only one of the six new judges who isn't a registered Democrat.

Vedica Puri, 47, of San Francisco, who has been a partner at Pillsbury & Coleman LLP since 2005 and was a senior associate there from 2002 to 2005, was appointed to the San Francisco County Superior Court.

Nicole L. Isger, 48, of Mountain View, who has been a sole practitioner since 2015, was a partner at Geffon and Isger from 2004 to 2014 and previously served as a deputy public defender in Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties, was appointed to the Santa Clara County Superior Court.

Terrye D. Davis, 63, of Vallejo, who has served as a commissioner at the Contra Costa County Superior Court since 2016 and was an associate at the law office of Osby Davis from 2014 to 2016 and from 2000 to 2009, was appointed to the Solano County Superior Court.

The compensation for each new judge is $207,424 a year.

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