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Weingart, Viramontes Confirmed as C.A. Justices
By a MetNews Staff Writer
Commission on Judicial Appointments has confirmed the appointments of Gregory Weingart and Victor Viramontes as justices of the Court of Appeal for this district.
Each was serving as a judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Weingart joins Div. One, replacing Justice Jeffrey Johnson, who was ousted by the Commission on Judicial Performance, and Viramontes succeeds to the Div. Eight seat that had been occupied by Maria Stratton, who is now the division’s presiding justice.
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GREGORY WEINGART |
VICTOR VIRAMONTES |
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Court of Appeal justices |
The panel was comprised of Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Attorney General Rob Bonta, and the district’s senior presiding justice, Arthur Gilbert.
Weingart was a judge of the Superior Court from 2018-19 and from 2020 until he was sworn in as a Court of Appeal justice following Wednesday’s confirmation hearing. He had been a partner at succeeds Munger, Tolles and Olson LLP from 2004-18 and was an associate there from 1992-95. He served as an assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California from 1995 to 2004. Judge Weingart served as a law clerk for the Honorable William M. Byrne Jr. at the U.S. District Court, Central District of California from 1991 to 1992. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School.
Viramontes served as a Superior Court judge since 2017. Before that, he was Tolls national senior counsel at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund from 2010 to 2017 for seven years.
Weingart’s law degree is from Harvard and Viramontes attained his at Yale.
Also confirmed Wednesday was Therese Stewart, as presiding justice of the First District’s Div. Two. She replaces J. Anthony Kline, who retired.
Stewart, whose law degree is from the University of California at Berkeley, has been a justice in the division since 2014. Jim Humes, the First District’s senior presiding justice, sat on the panel that confirmed her.
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