Oct. 5, 2026
1st District Presiding Justice Tracie Brown seeks 12-year term
Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown of the 1st District Court of Appeal, a former federal prosecutor who wrote the opinion largely upholding Proposition 22, seeks a full 12-year term.
Tracie L. Brown was on maternity leave from the U.S. attorney's office in May 2013, caring for her 3-month-old daughter, when Gov. Jerry Brown's office called her to Sacramento for a judicial interview.
"It was one of these days where I still hadn't managed to take a shower by like 10:30, which only a new parent can understand," she told the Daily Journal in 2014.
She was on the San Francisco County Superior Court within weeks. Now presiding justice of...
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