With open trial court seats dwindling, California Governor Jerry Brown on Friday looked to his staff and several government lawyers to fill superior court positions around the state.

Among the slate of six appointments announced Friday, the governor named Kristina Lindquist, a longtime deputy legal affairs secretary on his staff, to the Sacramento Superior Court bench. Lindquist, 37, previously served as staff counsel at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from 2008 to 2011 and as tax counsel at the State Board of Equalization in 2009.