Gov. Jerry Brown continued his frenetic pace of judicial appointments Tuesday, nominating four judges and lawyers to fill appellate court vacancies around the state.

Gordon Burns, the undersecretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency since 2011, was selected for the First District Court of Appeal’s Division Five. Like several of the governor’s recent court appointments, Burns served in the attorney general’s office during part of Brown’s tenure there, first as a deputy attorney general from 1997 to 2006 and then as deputy solicitor general from 2006 to 2010.

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