California Governor names India-born attorney as superior court judge
Darpan News Desk IANS, 25 May, 2023 01:54 PM
New York, May 25 (IANS) An Indian-American attorney is among 27 new superior court judge appointees announced by California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Sweena Pannu, a Democrat, who will serve as a Judge in the Stanislaus County Superior Court, fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Thomas D. Zeff.
The compensation for each of these 27 positions is $231,174, according to a press release from the Governor's office.
Pannu has served as a Deputy County Counsel in the Stanislaus County Counsel's Office since 2020.
From 2006-2020, she served as a Deputy Public Defender at the Stanislaus County Public Defender's Office.
She was an attorney at ML SARIN from 1996 to 2004, and earned a Master of Laws degree from the University of Aberdeen School of Law after graduating from Punjab University.
Honourable Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan is the current Minister of National Defence and a Member of Parliament representing the riding of Vancouver South. Sajjan was first elected during the 2015 federal election and was sworn into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet as defence minister on November 4, 2015.
Having been in the healthcare field for over 25 years, and working in different countries like the United Arab Emirates (UAE), India, Oman, Qatar and Canada, Clancey Po is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Burjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi in the UAE.
The Seeker, Karan Bajaj's first international novel, will be published in India in June 2015, and worldwide in early 2016. The book follows a Manhattan-based investment banker who becomes a yogi in the Indian Himalayas. It was inspired by Karan’s one year spiritual sabbatical learning yoga in a South Indian ashram, meditating in complete silence in the Vedantic tradition in the Indian Himalayas and living as a Buddhist Monk in a Scottish monastery.
Saumitra Saxena is a well-accomplished poet who has contributed immensely to the field of Hindi literature, with works that have been acclaimed not only in India, but overseas as well.
