The contested race for a seat on the San Francisco Superior Court bench pits occasionally controversial Judge Thomas Mellon against termed-out Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval and prosecutor-turned-PD-turned-solo Mary Mallen. Voters will have to weigh the candidates — here’s our coverage.
Cheng said she couldn’t confirm or deny whether Mallen’s lack of a JNE application led to the “not qualified” rating because discussing it would breach the confidentiality of the committee’s decision-making.
“The committee went through the process of investigating all the information that she gave us in addition to getting information from other people who had knowledge of her,” Cheng said.
There are 21 members on BASF’s judiciary committee; their names had not all been publicly released by late Wednesday.
