Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced the appointment of Kathleen Vermazen Radez, a deputy city attorney in San Francisco, as a new Alameda County Superior Court judge.
Radez will replace Judge Julia Spain, who is retiring, Newsom announced Feb. 2.
“She has a strong dedication to the law, unwavering integrity, and commitment to public service,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said in a news release Thursday. “We know she will bring those same qualities to the bench.”
Radez joined the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office as a deputy city attorney in 2024 and has served on the Ethics and Elections Team, where she drafted campaign finance, elections, lobbying and conflicts of interest and campaign finance legislation.
Before joining the City Attorney’s Office, Radez worked as a supervising chambers attorney at the California Supreme Court, where she analyzed issues of state and federal law.
She also taught at University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, worked at the California Department of Justice and was a law clerk at both the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and the California Supreme Court.
Radez earned her law degree from the Columbia University School of Law and her bachelor’s degree in international relations from Stanford University.