First openly gay jtice nfirmed to California high urt

Contents:

• CALIFORNIA NFIRMS MART JENKS AS STATE'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPREME COURT JTICE
• FIRST OPENLY GAY JTICE NFIRMED TO SERVE ON THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT
• NEWSOM’S SUPREME COURT PICK NFIRMED AS STATE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JTICE
• CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT'S 1ST GAY JTICE LEFT THE NFL TO PURSUE A LAW REER

CALIFORNIA NFIRMS MART JENKS AS STATE'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPREME COURT JTICE

California ma history on Tuday when nfirmed s first openly gay state Supreme Court jtice, acrdg to a prs release. After more than 30 years of service as a state & feral judge, Jtice Jenks mak history as the first openly gay jtice and the third Ain Amerin man to serve on the state high urt. Mart Jenks, 66, be the first openly gay associate jtice nfirmed to California's Supreme Court.

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FIRST OPENLY GAY JTICE NFIRMED TO SERVE ON THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT

"It's tellg that we're talkg about the first openly gay jtice, bee we're pretty sure the first gay jtice has already e and gone and we jt don't know , " he Steve Fris on Twter. Gav Newsom, won unanimo nfirmatn Tuday to the California Supreme Court, beg s first openly gay member and the fifth Black jtice the urt’s history.

He said a prev terview that he began g out as gay about five years the hearg, retired Court of Appeal Jtice William R. McGus said Jenks had a journey of “acceptance and thenticy and livg his tth and about beg Ain Amerin and gay. Johnson’s mpaign announcement vio, released last month, highlighted the 57-year-old’s experience as an attorney, an openly gay Texan and a state lawmaker who unseated former Republin state Rep.

Durg her first year office 2019, Johnson joed four other openly gay women the Texas Hoe to form the state’s first LGBTQ uc, now one of the natn’s largt. There are jt 12 out LGBTQ people are servg the current Congrs — 10 the Hoe and two the Senate — spe more than 7 percent of the natn’s adult populatn intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or “somethg other than heterosexual, ” acrdg to a Febary Gallup poll. Natnwi, the number of openly gay women elected to public office has stalled, up only 0.

NEWSOM’S SUPREME COURT PICK NFIRMED AS STATE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JTICE

Only 14 out of 870 feral judghips are held by openly gay or lbian judg (cludg Robson), add, and there has never been an openly bisexual or transgenr judicial nomee. Mart Jenks was unanimoly nfirmed today to the California Supreme Court, makg him the first openly gay jtice on the state’s hight urt.

In 2018, the appeals urt, a 3-0 lg, cleared the way for disciplary actn agast San Francis officers who sent racist, sexist, and homophobic text msag. SACRAMENTO — California has nfirmed s first openly gay jtice to the state Supreme Court. Durg a news nference last month, Jenks said his inty as a gay man has been “perhaps the greatt challenge of my life.

Jenks ma history as the first openly gay jtice and third Black man to serve on the state’s hight an terview wh the LGBTQ magaze Advote, Jenks lled the distctn “an tertg notn.

CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT'S 1ST GAY JTICE LEFT THE NFL TO PURSUE A LAW REER

In an terview wh, Jenks, now his late 60s, said that acceptg himself as gay was “bar none” his greatt challenge. Gav Newsom is appotg Mart Jenks to the California Supreme Court, the first openly gay jtice and third Ain Amerin man nomated for the state’s hight urt. Jenks appotment marks only the send gay and black jtice to serve on a state Supreme Court natnwi.

Mart Jenks, 66, who is slated to bee the first openly gay jtice on the California Supreme Court, served on the bench for s whout disclosg his sexual orientatn to most iends and lleagu. He began g out as gay durg the last four to five years, he said durg an terview Tuday, and found the experience vigoratg. Jenks seemed to bristle when asked if was ironic that someone who was private about his sexual orientatn for so long would bee the first openly gay jtice.

Once he was on the bench wh Henrson, Jenks told him he was gay. “I will stay as long as I n make a ntributn, ” he was known to have been nsirg other gay judg for the state high urt vancy, created when Jtice Mg W.