Tani Cantil-Sakauye
| Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye | |
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| 28th Chief Justice of California | |
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Assumed office January 3, 2011 |
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| Nominated by | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Preceded by | Ronald M. George |
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October 19, 1959 Sacramento, California |
| Alma mater |
University of California Davis School of Law Sacramento City College |
Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye (born October 19, 1959), a Filipino-American jurist, is the 28th Chief Justice of California. Nominated by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for California's highest judicial office on July 22, 2010, and retained in office by California voters on November 2, 2010, she was sworn in on January 3, 2011. Prior to her current appointment, Cantil-Sakauye had served in judicial offices on California's appellate and trial courts. She is the first Asian-Filipino American and the second woman to serve as California’s chief justice.
Born in Sacramento, California, as Tani Gorre Cantil, she was raised in the Land Park neighborhood of Sacramento and earned her high school diploma from C. K. McClatchy High School in 1977, her A.A. from Sacramento City College in 1978, her B.A. from the University of California, Davis in 1980, and her J.D. from UC Davis School of Law in 1984. Cantil-Sakauye is technically of mixed descent. Her Hawaii-born father, Clarence, was of Filipino and Portuguese ancestry, while her mother, Mary Gorre, was Filipino.
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