{"id":528586,"date":"2026-11-13T18:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T18:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/528586\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T18:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T18:20:09","slug":"governor-appoints-thomas-sprankling-to-the-santa-clara-county-superior-court-bench-los-gatan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/528586\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor appoints Thomas Sprankling to the Santa Clara County Superior Court bench | Los Gatan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Thomas-Sprankling-e1794590794498.png\" data-caption=\"NEW JUDGE - Thomas Sprankling earned his doctorate from Columbia Law School. (County of Santa Clara)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"338\" height=\"271\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Thomas-Sprankling-e1794590794498.png\"  data- alt=\"Thomas Sprankling\" title=\"Thomas Sprankling\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 338px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 338\/271;\"\/><\/a>NEW JUDGE &#8211; Thomas Sprankling earned his doctorate from Columbia Law School. (County of Santa Clara)<\/p>\n<p>The Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara has announced the appointment of Thomas Sprankling to serve as a Judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Gavin Newsom announced Mr. Sprankling\u2019s appointment on November 4, 2026. He fills the vacancy created by the retirement of the Honorable Thomas E. Kuhnle.<\/p>\n<p>Sprankling has been a Partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr since 2022. He previously served as Counsel from 2019 to 2021, Senior Associate from 2016 to 2018, and Associate from 2013 to 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He also served as a law clerk at the United States Supreme Court from 2016 to 2017 and to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2012 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sprankling earned his Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Court welcomes Hon. Thomas Sprankling to the Bench,\u201d said Presiding Judge Julie A. Emede in a release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis diverse legal experience and dedication to the rule of law will greatly benefit our Court and the community we serve. We are delighted to welcome him as a colleague.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court congratulated Thomas Sprankling on his appointment through its official media channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW JUDGE &#8211; Thomas Sprankling earned his doctorate from Columbia Law School. (County of Santa Clara) The Superior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3622,16047,201303,88,90,89,103571,201304,88192],"class_list":["post-528586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-court","tag-judge","tag-julie-a-emede","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county-superior-court","tag-thomas-sprankling","tag-us-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528586","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=528586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}