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Jessner Under Consideration for Appointment to Court of Appeal Post in Los Angeles
By a MetNews Staff Writer
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SAMANTHA JESSNER Superior Court presiding judge |
Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Samantha P. Jessner is in contention for appointment to a vacancy on this district’s Court of Appeal.
The State Bar’s Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation and the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s State Appellate Judicial Evaluation Committee are sending out questionnaires on Jessner.
Jessner was appointed to the Superior Court in 2007 by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. She was, at the time, an assistant United States attorney for the Central District of California, and earlier was an associate at Sheppard Mullin and has served as in-house counsel for The Boeing Company and as an assistant inspector general for the Los Angeles Police Commission.
She is the daughter of Patricia Phillips, the first female president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
There are three vacancies on the Court of Appeal for this district: that of presiding justice of Div. Five and associate justice in Div. One and in Div. Three.
If appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Jessner will become the fourth Los Angeles Superior Court presiding judge in the past 50 years to be awarded a spot on this district’s Court of Appeal. Gov. George Deukmejian in 1981 named David N. Eagleson as an associate justice of Div. Five; Gov. Gray Davis placed Robert Mallano on Div. One as an associate justice in 2000; and Gov. Jerry Brown elevated Lee Edmon to the post of presiding justice of Div. Three in 2015.
Eagleson (now deceased) went on to become a member of the California Supreme Court and Mallano, now retired, later served as presiding justice of Div. One. Edmon remains presiding justice of Div. Three.
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