SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed more than 20 judges across California on Thursday, including two in the Bay Area.

The governor appointed Paul Seeman, an Alameda County Superior Court commissioner, in that county. Seeman, 54, maintained his own practice from 1980 to 2004, when he became a court commissioner. Based in Berkeley, the UC-Berkeley School of Law graduate spent most of his career in juvenile court representing parents, children and, for one year as a deputy county counsel, the county’s Social Services Agency. He also handled various civil cases and served occasionally as a substitute juvenile court judge.