{"id":392567,"date":"2026-07-09T21:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/392567\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T21:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:51:11","slug":"uc-law-sf-alumni-appointed-to-californias-superior-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/392567\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Law SF alumni appointed to California&#8217;s superior courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-ccwcag-attachment-id=\"143344\" data-ccwcag-attachment=\"{\" disable_page_edit=\"\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-143344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fay-Shirkey-lead-300x169.png\" alt=\"Thomas Fay and Stephanie Shirkey\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed two UC Law San Francisco alumni to serve as judges in California\u2019s\u00a0superior\u00a0courts.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Fay\u202f\u201906\u202f was appointed to the Orange County Superior Court. Fay served as senior and then lead appellate attorney at the Fourth District Court of Appeal from 2020 to 2026, and previously was in private practice.\u202f <\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Shirkey\u202f\u201912 received an interim appointment to begin serving immediately as a judge in the El Dorado County Superior Court, an office\u00a0to which\u00a0she had\u00a0already\u00a0been elected but had\u00a0yet to begin her term.\u00a0Shirkey\u00a0served as a\u00a0lead\u00a0attorney at the Third District Court of Appeal\u00a0and previously\u00a0spent 12 years in the\u00a0California\u00a0Office of Legislative Counsel.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They join more than 500 living UC Law SF graduates who have served on the benches of state and federal courts across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed two UC Law San Francisco alumni to serve as judges in California\u2019s\u00a0superior\u00a0courts.\u202f\u00a0 Thomas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-392567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392567","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=392567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}