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Leondra Kruger Becomes Youngest Supreme Court Judge in 100 Years By JENNIFER SCHLUETER Last Monday, Leondra Kruger was unanimously approved as the youngest justice of the California Supreme Court in almost a century. The 38-year old had been nominated by Governor Jerry Brown in November, and will be sworn into office by him on January 5, along with Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, who was confirmed as justice in August. Cuellar will replace retiring Justice Marvin Baxtor and Kruger will fill Justice Joyce Kennard’s seat, who had retired in April. Kruger was appointed by California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye; Attorney General Kamala Harris; and Joan Dempsey Klein, “presiding justice of the second appellate district division three,” who rated her “‘exceptionally wellqualified,’ [which is] the highest ranking a judicial candidate can receive,” according to Courthouse News. Patch.com quoted former Assistant U.S. Solicitor General Benjamin Horwich, who had worked with Kruger: “She listens, she thinks, she listens, she thinks and then she listens some
more.” Cantil-Sakauye, chair of the San Francisco-based court, “called Kruger’s credentials ‘truly stellar,’” according the website. Following an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a law degree from Yale University, Kruger worked as an assistant law professor at the University of Chicago, and practiced privately. The website also reported that she then went to Washington, D.C., where she became “assistant to the U.S. solicitor general and acting principal deputy solicitor general,” and later deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Kruger was born and raised in Glendale; however, has never practiced law in California nor been a judge. Thus, Cantil-Sakauye questioned Kruger about these two lacking fields to which Kruger answered that her work with the Justice Department has exposed her to a variety of legal principles and that she hopes to continue learning and “draw on the expertise of her col-
nationwide program. The event paired public safety officers with two youth from each Club site for an evening of holiday shopping at Target. The members were selected based off of their overall improvement since beginning at the Club, as well as for displaying outstanding behavior and citizenship.
AUHSD to Help District With First District-Wide “Servathon” on King Holiday
On the evening of the event, a team of police cars, officers, and K-9 units came to the Club to transport the participants to Cypress Target. After asking lots of questions about life as a police officer, the kids were led into their private police cars. As the group
More than 2,200 Anaheim Union students are gearing up to stage the first-ever AUHSD Servathon, which will be held on Monday, January 19, 2015, coinciding with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday and National Day of Service. The Servathon is a fundraiser similar to a jogathon, but instead of getting sponsors for laps, participants get sponsors for hours of community service. The students, who hail from all of the District’s 19 junior high and high school campuses, will be raising money while accomplishing more than 136 different service projects in the five communities that encompass the District— Anaheim, Cypress, La Palma, Buena Park, and Stanton—and surrounding areas. The projects, which range from the traditional, such as campus or beach cleanups to the less customary, such as helping seniors with technology needs or going door-todoor to encourage the use of smoke alarms, are designed to give students experiences that will better connect them with neighborhoods, businesses, the elderly, and younger students. Most Servathon activities will occur on January 19, but there will be a window of service of up to one week. The Servathon’s goal is to raise $75,000 per year to create a funding source for scholar-
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Leondra Kruger
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leagues on the court,” as Patch notes. According to the LA Times, Kruger told California Attorney General Kamala Harris that she was excited “to have the opportunity to come back home” to California. “It is where I was born and raised and where my family still lives,” she added. On the seven member court, Kruger will be one of three Democrats. Additionally, she will be the only African American member. Her colleague Cuellar, a law Professor at Stanford University, who Please see page 3
Boys & Girls Club Members Participate in Holiday “Shop with a Cop” Program On Thursday, December 18th four Boys & Girls Club of Cypress members were selected to participate in the Cypress “Shop with a Cop” Program. The program was created in 2000 to foster positive relationships between youth and law enforcement. Now each year over 200 communities participate in the
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