Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday named 17 new trial court judges, bringing to 35 the total number of superior court vacancies he has filled since early June.

Newsom also nominated Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Delaney to the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division Three. A former president of the California Judges Association, Delaney was a partner at Sedgwick for 12 years before Gov. Jerry Brown named him to the Orange County bench. The Loyola Law School graduate was an associate at Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold from 1995 to 2001 and at Bodkin McCarthy Sargent & Smith from 1992 to 1995.