Appellate Judge Carol A. Corrigan was confirmed Wednesday to the California Supreme Court, where the former prosecutor replaces the most conservative justice on the state's highest court.
Corrigan, 57, who sits on the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco, is a former trial judge and Alameda County prosecutor who was elevated to the appeals court in 1994 by former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson after changing her voter registration from Democrat to Republican.
Corrigan, who graduated from Hastings College of the Law in 1975, was unanimously approved by the Commission on Judicial Appointments.
The white Catholic and Stockton native was selected by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to succeed Janice Rogers Brown, the seven-member court's most conservative judge, and only black member. Brown resigned June 30 after the U.S. Senate confirmed her to a federal appeals court in the District of Columbia.
Details here from the AP via the San Francisco Chronicle.