Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California
Incumbent
Assumed office September 1, 2011
Appointed by
Jerry Brown
Preceded by
Carlos Moreno
Personal details
Born
Goodwin Hon Liu
(1970-10-19) October 19, 1970 (age 53) Augusta, Georgia, U.S.
Spouse
Ann O'Leary
(m. 2002; sep. 2016)
Children
2
Education
Stanford University (BS) Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (MPhil) Yale University (JD)
Goodwin Liu
Traditional Chinese
劉弘威
Simplified Chinese
刘弘威
Hanyu Pinyin
Liú Hóngwēi
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Liú Hóngwēi
Goodwin Hon Liu (born October 19, 1970; Chinese: 劉弘威) is an American lawyer who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California. Before his appointment by California Governor Jerry Brown, Liu was Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).[1] Liu has been recognized for his writing on constitutional law, education policy, civil rights, and the Supreme Court.[1]
Born in Georgia, Liu attended Stanford University, the University of Oxford, and Yale Law School. On February 24, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Liu to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[2] For more than a year, Liu's nomination was delayed amid significant opposition from Republicans in the U.S. Senate.[3] On May 19, 2011, the Senate failed to invoke cloture on Liu's nomination with the necessary supermajority in a 52–43 vote,[4] and on May 25, 2011, Liu informed President Obama that he was withdrawing his name from consideration to the seat on the Ninth Circuit, telling the president that "With no possibility of an up-or-down vote on the horizon, my family and I have decided that it is time for us to regain the ability to make plans for the future."[5]
On July 26, 2011, Governor Jerry Brown nominated Liu to a seat on the Supreme Court of California, succeeding Associate Justice Carlos R. Moreno.[6] Three days later, President Obama formally notified the Senate that he was withdrawing Liu's nomination for the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.[7] Liu was sworn into the California Supreme Court on September 1, 2011.[8]
^ ab"Berkeley Law - Faculty Profiles". UC Berkeley School of Law. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
^"President Obama Nominates Goodwin Liu for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Judge Robert N. Chatigny for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit", whitehouse.gov (February 24, 2010).
^Hulse, Carl (2011-05-19). "G.O.P. Blocks Judicial Nominee in a Sign of Battles to Come". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
^"Senate Roll Call". Senate.gov. 2009-03-26. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
^Dahlia Lithwick (May 25, 2011). "Goodwin Liu Withdraws". Slate.
^Egelko, Bob (July 27, 2011). "Brown nominates Goodwin Liu for state high court". San Francisco Chronicle.
^Congressional Record for the Senate of July 29, 2011
^Egelko, Bob (July 28, 2017). "Why you should care about who will sit on California's Supreme Court". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved August 20, 2017.
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