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Volume 28 · Number 1 · Fall 2010

By Jim Sweeney

The nominee for California chief justice is one of us, and it’s a first.

Tani Cantil-Sakauye already has been many things in an extraordinary life — farm workers’ daughter, cheerleader, homecoming queen, waitress, national moot court champion, blackjack dealer, prosecutor, Municipal Court judge, Superior Court judge and appellate court justice.

And she’s not done yet.

On Jan. 3, if all goes as expected, the 1984 graduate of the UC Davis School of Law will be sworn in as just the 28th person to serve as chief justice of the California Supreme Court. She would replace Chief Justice Ronald George, who announced his retirement after 14 years in the position.

Cantil-Sakauye, 50, couldn’t help but marvel at her own life story when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced her to a Capitol crowd on July 22, the day after her nomination.

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