Joshua Paul Groban (born August 15, 1973) is an American lawyer who serves as an associate justice of the
California Supreme Court. He was appointed to the California Supreme Court by Governor
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 34th and 39th governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic P ...
on November 14, 2018.
Education and law career
Groban was raised in
Del Mar, California and graduated from
Torrey Pines High School. His father is a physician at
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Es ...
hospital, and his mother, Deborah Isackson Groban, served as a member of
Del Mar City Council
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. Groban attended
Stanford University
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, obtaining a
Bachelor of Arts
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degree in 1995, and
Harvard Law School
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, obtaining a
Juris Doctor
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degree in 1998.
Groban began his legal career serving as a
law clerk
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to
U.S. District Judge
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William C. Conner in the
Southern District of New York from 1998 to 1999.
He was in private practice at
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in
New York City
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from 1999 to 2005, and at
Munger, Tolles & Olson in
Los Angeles
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from 2005 to 2010.
Groban served as counsel to Brown's campaign for California governor in the
2010 California gubernatorial election.
Upon Brown's election, he served in the administration overseeing state judicial appointments and advising on litigation and policy. He was Brown's fourth appointment to the seven-member Supreme Court. Groban teaches State
Appellate Practice at the
UCLA School of Law
The University of California, Los Angeles School of Law (commonly known as UCLA School of Law or UCLA Law) is the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles.
History
Founded in 1949, the UCLA School of Law is the third oldest of t ...
.
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California Supreme Court
On November 14, 2018, Groban was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 34th and 39th governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic P ...
to serve as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court.
See also
* List of Jewish American jurists
* List of justices of the Supreme Court of California
References
External links
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1973 births
Living people
Justices of the Supreme Court of California
Harvard Law School alumni
Lawyers from Los Angeles
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison people
People from Del Mar, California
Stanford University alumni
20th-century American lawyers
21st-century American lawyers
21st-century American judges
People associated with Munger, Tolles & Olson