If Michael Nava, a 52-year-old judicial staff attorney for a California Supreme Court justice, is chosen for a seat on San Francisco's 1st District Court of Appeal, he would become California's first openly gay appellate justice. A member of the National Center for Lesbian Rights points out that a "monolithic bench" results in cases that don't take into account "different plaintiffs, different parties, different facts that help to bring alive the promise of equal treatment under the law."
May 31, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Michael Nava is more than ready to make history.
The 52-year-old judicial staff attorney for California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno is in the running for a seat on San Francisco’s 1st District Court of Appeal. And if chosen, he would become California’s first openly gay appellate justice.
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