Mountain View Legal Eagle Appointed For Santa Clara County Court

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- Lame duck Gov. Jerry Brown, who leaves office on Monday, appointed six new superior court judges to Bay Area courts this week, including two in Alameda County and one each in Santa Clara, Contra Costa, San Francisco and Solano counties.

Appointed to the Santa Clara County Superior Court was Nicole L. Isger, 48, of Mountain View. She has been a sole practitioner since 2015, was a partner at Geffon and Isger from 2004 to 2014 and previously served as a deputy public defender in Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties.

For the Alameda County Superior Court were Clifford T. Blakely Jr., 48, of Moraga, a deputy public defender in the county's Public Defender's Office, and Karin S. Schwartz, 54, of Sacramento, who has served as deputy director and chief counsel at the California Department of Public Health since 2013.

John P. Devine, 53, of Walnut Creek, who has been supervising deputy attorney general at the California Department of Justice since 2011, was appointed to the Contra Costa County Superior Court. Devine, who is registered without party preference, is the only one of the six new judges who isn't a registered Democrat.

Vedica Puri, 47, of San Francisco, who has been a partner at Pillsbury & Coleman LLP since 2005 and was a senior associate there from 2002 to 2005, was appointed to the San Francisco County Superior Court.

Terrye D. Davis, 63, of Vallejo, who has served as a commissioner at the Contra Costa County Superior Court since 2016 and was an associate at the law office of Osby Davis from 2014 to 2016 and from 2000 to 2009, was appointed to the Solano County Superior Court.

The compensation for each new judge is $207,424 a year.

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