A Los Angeles-area native who served as a deputy assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., was confirmed Monday to serve on the California Supreme Court.
Leondra R. Kruger, 38, was confirmed by the state Commission on Judicial Appointments. She was nominated last month by Gov. Jerry Brown to fill the seat of retired Associate Justice Joyce L. Kennard.
Kruger worked with the Department of Justice beginning in 2007 and argued at least a dozen cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, according to the governor’s office.
Kruger, who was raised in Pasadena, earned her law degree from Yale Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Harvard University.
In addition to her work in private practice, she previously served as a law clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals Judge David S. Tatel and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
— City News Service