- Carol Corrigan
Carol Ann Corrigan (born
August 16 ,1948 , in Stockton,California ) is a Justice of theCalifornia Supreme Court .Background
Corrigan, the daughter of a newspaperman, grew up in the
San Joaquin Valley city of Stockton. She attended the then women-only CatholicHoly Names College in Oakland. After a brief stint in a graduate program in psychology, Corrigan attended theUniversity of California Hastings College of the Law , receiving the degree ofJuris Doctor in 1975, She was admitted to the California bar in December of the same year. At UC Hastings, she also served as Notes and Comments Editor of the [http://www.uchastings.edu/hlj Hastings Law Journal] .Corrigan worked as a prosecutor in
Alameda County, California from 1975 until 1987, at which time she was appointed to the since-abolishedMunicipal Court . She became a judge of theCalifornia Superior Court (the state's principal trial court) and in 1994 a justice of theCalifornia Court of Appeal . There, she gained a reputation for legal acumen, serving on a commission that overhauled the state's court rules.Corrigan is unmarried and has resided in and around
Oakland, California for most of her adult life.California Supreme Court
On
December 9 ,2005 , GovernorArnold Schwarzenegger nominated her to the Supreme Court of California to replace JusticeJanice Rogers Brown , who resigned to accept an appointment to theUnited States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit . She was confirmed in this positionJanuary 4 ,2006 .Notable judicial opinions
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In re Marriage Cases ,May 15 ,2008 (dissenting from ruling that same-sex marriage ban violates California Constitution).
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