Carol Corrigan
| Carol Corrigan | |
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| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California | |
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Assumed office January 4, 2006 |
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| Appointed by | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Preceded by | Janice Rogers Brown |
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| Born |
August 16, 1948 |
| Alma mater |
Holy Names College UC Hastings College of the Law |
Carol Ann Corrigan (born August 16, 1948) is an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court.
Corrigan, the daughter of a newspaperman, grew up in the San Joaquin Valley city of . She graduated from Saint Mary's High School in Stockton, and attended the then women-only Catholic Holy Names College in Oakland. After a brief stint in a graduate program in psychology, Corrigan enrolled at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she served as Notes and Comments Editor of the Hastings Law Journal. She received her Juris Doctor degree in 1975 and was admitted to the California bar the same year.
Corrigan worked as a prosecutor in Alameda County, California from 1975, and as a senior prosecutor from 1985 until 1987 when she was appointed to the county's Municipal Court. In 1991 she became a Judge of the Superior Court of Alameda County, the state's principal trial court there. In 1994 the Governor Pete Wilson appointed her as a Justice in the California Court of Appeal, First District. There, she gained a reputation for legal acumen, serving on a commission that overhauled the state's court rules.
Corrigan is unmarried and has resided in and around Oakland, California for most of her adult life.
On December 9, 2005, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger nominated her to the Supreme Court of California, to replace Justice Janice Rogers Brown. Corrigan was confirmed in this position January 4, 2006.
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