Gov. Newsom appoints Redding attorney as Shasta Superior Court judge
Ryan Birss’ appointment fills the vacancy left by retired Judge Monique D. McKee. He’s the second judicial appointment in Shasta in the last few months.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Redding attorney Ryan Birss as a Shasta County Superior Court judge.
Birss’ appointment, which was announced by the governor’s office yesterday, fills the vacancy left by retired Judge Monique D. McKee. Neither Birss’ start date nor his caseload assignment have been announced.
Birss has been the owner of Ryan H. Birss, Attorney at Law since 2018. Before that, he was an associate at Eric Alan Berg and Associates. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California School of Law, San Francisco.
According to his website, Birss is a defense attorney who has represented people accused of drunk driving, domestic violence, drug crimes, theft and other serious charges.
The compensation for his position is $244,727, according to the state’s press release announcing the appointment of Birss along with nine other superior court judges, who Newsom also appointed yesterday.
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Hope you are planning to do a story on Patrick Deedon, the judge appointed by Newsome a couple of weeks ago. He is a graduate of Shasta High School, coming home to serve in his childhood county.
Hi Sharyn: We did! https://shastascout.org/gov-newsom-appoints-redding-attorney/
Oh wow! I remember him from school
I have served jury duty. He’s a left leaning cancer for the north state. I’ll leave it at that.
GOOD
A cancer, huh? By extension of your logic, is right-leaning Shastanistan a cancer within California? Are you?
Each Superior Court judge must stand for election every six years unless no candidate for the expiring judgeship files to run against the judge currently holding the judgeship. This article fails to say the length of time remaining on the retiring judges current term of office; in other words, when will Judge Birss stand for election. (I suspect there will be candidate or two for that judgeship.)
According to Ballotpedia, the term for that office ends in 2028, so Birss has a couple of years before he stands for re-election.
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Judge McKee, whom he’s replacing, was appointed by Gov. Brown in 2013 and retained her seat in the 2016 election. There are no Ballotpedia results for the 2022 election, so apparently nobody filed to run against her.
Thank you for the additional information.
yup