{"id":104756,"date":"2025-12-22T10:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104756\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:27:59","slug":"newsom-makes-kern-county-superior-court-judge-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104756\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom makes Kern County Superior Court judge appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Gov. Gavin Newsom made two judicial appointments on Thursday, including one in Kern County.<\/p>\n<p>Christie Canales Norris, 37, of Bakersfield, was appointed as a judge on the Kern County Superior Court. Norris earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Iowa College of Law and has served as a senior attorney at the Kern County Superior Court since 2018. She was a Sole Practitioner from 2013 to 2020 and served as a Deputy Public Defender at the Kern County Public Defender\u2019s Office from 2011 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Norris fills a vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Lorna H. Brumfield.<\/p>\n<p>The other appointment was Charles J. Lee, 44, of Clovis, as a judge on the Fresno County Superior Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Gov. Gavin Newsom made two judicial appointments on Thursday, including one in Kern County.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,56761,693,723,735,162,56762,56763,1979],"class_list":{"0":"post-104756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news","11":"tag-bakersfield-traffic","12":"tag-bakersfield-weather","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-kern-county","15":"tag-kern-county-news","16":"tag-kern-county-traffic","17":"tag-kern-county-weather","18":"tag-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}