Governor's Judicial Appointments: "Diversity Gap" Still Continues

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Governor Schwarzenegger appointed 26 new judges on Friday -- and once again, they were sadly lacking in diversity.
 
Of the 26, only one was Latina and only three were African-American. Only eight were women (including the only Latina and two African-Americans).
 
Assemblymember Dave Jones, chairman of the Assembly's Judiciary Committee, is rightly taking the Governor to task. He and Speaker Nunez were promised by the administration that it would step up its recruitment and appointment of minority and women judges. Schwarzenegger's appointments of minority and women judges lag far behind those of Governor Davis and are near levels of more than a decade ago by Governor Wilson.