Stanford trustee and alum GOODWIN LIU, whose nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit was thwarted by a Republican filibuster, has been tapped for another bench. California Gov. Jerry Brown nominated Liu, a UC-Berkeley law professor, to the state Supreme Court.
In announcing his pick, Brown called Liu “an extraordinary man and a distinguished legal scholar and teacher. He is a nationally recognized expert on constitutional law and has experience in private practice, government service and in the academic community. I know that he will be an outstanding addition to our state supreme court.”
Liu’s interest in public service dates at least to his days as a Stanford undergrad when he was a student program assistant at the Haas Center for Public Service and later served on the center’s national Advisory Board. He received a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from Stanford in 1991, studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and received his law degree at Yale.
