Goodwin Liu
| Goodwin Liu | |
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| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California | |
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Assumed office September 1, 2011 |
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| Appointed by | Jerry Brown |
| Preceded by | Carlos Moreno |
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Goodwin Hon Liu October 19, 1970 Augusta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Ann O'Leary |
| Children | Violet Emmett |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Yale University |
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| Traditional Chinese | 劉弘威 | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 刘弘威 | ||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Liú Hóngwēi | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Liú Hóngwēi |
Goodwin Hon Liu (born October 19, 1970) is an American lawyer, educator and 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). Liu has been recognized for his writing on constitutional law, education policy, civil rights, and the Supreme Court.
On February 24, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Liu to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. For more than a year, Liu's nomination languished, amid significant opposition from Republicans in the U.S. Senate. On May 19, 2011, the Senate rejected cloture on Liu's nomination in a 52–43 vote, 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."
On July 26, 2011, Governor Jerry Brown nominated Liu to a seat on the Supreme Court of California, succeeding Associate Justice Carlos R. Moreno. Three days later, President Obama formally notified the Senate that he was withdrawing Liu's nomination for the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He was sworn into the California Supreme Court on September 1, 2011.
Liu was born in Augusta, Georgia, of Taiwanese descent, the second son of Wen-Pen and Yang-Ching Liu, both of whom came to the United States from Taiwan in the late 1960s, when foreign doctors were being recruited to work in underserved areas. Liu and his family moved to Clewiston, Florida, shortly after his birth and then in 1977, they relocated to Sacramento, California, where Liu graduated from Rio Americano High School. He went to Stanford University and earned a B.S. in biology. While at Stanford, he was active in student politics as a member of the People's Platform, serving on the Council of Presidents of the ASSU. He attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship and earned a M. Phil in philosophy and physiology. Liu received his J.D. from Yale Law School.
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