In San Mateo, Davis tapped Marie Weiner, a partner at Burlingame’s 19-lawyer Cotchett, Pitre, Simon & McCarthy and a member of the State Bar Board of Governors. The other three judges were appointed to the Los Angeles bench.

Weiner, 43, is a Hastings College of the Law graduate and a specialist in plaintiff class actions, investor fraud and intellectual property disputes. She was formerly an associate with San Diego’s Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach.