Four new judges were appointed to the Santa Clara judiciary this week by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
On Monday, the Gov. Schwarzenegger named deputy public defender Andrea Flint, Palo Alto lawyer Thomas Kuhnle, Saratoga lawyer James Stoelker and San Jose lawyer Drew Takaichi as Superior Court judges.
The governor has been moving to fill empty judgeships before he leaves office in January, a tradition for outgoing governors who do not want to let their successors make the appointments.
Flint, 40, has been a deputy public defender since 1997, most recently supervising her office’s juvenile justice division. McCracken, 49, was a supervisor under outgoing District Attorney Dolores Carr.
The other two appointees have civil law backgrounds. They are all Democrats.
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