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Supreme Court Lawyer Scherb Named to C.A.
Governor Taps Five for Los Angeles Superior Court Judgeships
By a MetNews Staff Writer
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Gov. Gavin Newsom yesterday announced his nomination of California Supreme Court chambers attorney Matthew A. Scherb, 47, as a justice of this district’s Court of Appeal.
If confirmed by the three-member Commission on Judicial; Appointments, he will replace Justice Elizabeth A. Grimes. who retired, in Div. Eight.
He was one of three persons named yesterday to courts of appeal. The governor also made 18 appointments to superior courts, including five persons placed on the trial bench in Los Angeles County.
Scherb’s Background
Scherb has held his present post since 2021. He was a Los Angeles deputy city attorney from 2017-21, a research attorney for the San Francisco-based First District Court of Appeal from 2011-17, a litigator with Winston & Strawn in San Francisco from 2005-11, and served as a law clerk at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia from 2004-05.
His law degree is from Northwestern University in Illinois.
Serving on the commission that will determine if his nomination is to be conformed will be Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero, Attorney General Rob Bonta, and Senior Court of Appeal Presiding Justice Arthur Gilbert of this district’s Div. Six.
Others under consideration for appointment to the Court of Appeal for this district are Los Angeles Superior Court Judges Samantha Jessner, a former presiding judge, and Armen Tamzarian.
Newsom yesterday also named San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Corey Lee to Div. Two of the Fourth District Court of Appeal and Fresno Superior Court Judge Arlan L. Harrell to the Fifth District Court of Appeal.
Superior Court Appointments
Among those named to the Los Angeles Superior Court are two recently elected commissioners of that body, Amanda Park and Melinda Porter.
Park was first on the 2024 eligibility list for a commissionership and was elected to her post by judges on March 13 of that year. She had been an attorney for the Los Angeles County Child Support Services Department for more than 25 years.
Her law degree is from Loyola.
Porter was elected by judges last March 14. A graduate of the law school at Western State University, she had been a deputy public defender for 17 years.
The governor also appointed as judges California Deputy Attorney General Osman Abbasi, Los Angeles County Deputy Public Defender Veronica Ramos, and Assistant Los Angeles City Attorney Renee Williams.
Abbasi joined the Attorney General’s Office in 2021, left it in 2022 to serve as Arlean an inspector at the Los Angeles County Office of Inspector General, and rejoined it this year. He earned his law degree at the University of Michigan.
Ramos has been at her post since 2008. She received her law degree from Hastings.
Williams joined the City Attorney’s Office in 2021 after holding various Los Angeles County positions. She graduated from the law school at USC.
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