Joshua Groban, Gov. Brown’s final nominee to the California Supreme Court, has received state judicial evaluators’ top rating, exceptionally well qualified.

Groban, Brown’s senior adviser for the last seven years, “has an outstanding scholastic background and significant legal experience in civil practice with major law firms on both coasts,” David Fermino, chairman of the state bar’s commission on judicial nominees evaluation, wrote to the commission on judicial appointments in a letter released Wednesday.