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Posted inCalifornia Currents

Gov. Newsom’s Supreme Court pick confirmed as state’s first openly gay justice

by Byrhonda Lyons, CalMatters November 11, 2020November 11, 2020

Martin Jenkins was unanimously confirmed Tuesday to the California Supreme Court, making him the first openly gay justice on the state’s highest court. Jenkins, who was born and raised in the Bay Area, is also the third Black man to serve as a justice in the court’s history — and the first in 29 years. […]

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