When California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye introduced this summer season that she wouldn’t be in search of one other time period on the bench, she mentioned she didn’t plan on retiring utterly.
“My husband mentioned, ‘You’ve acquired to do one thing,’” she mentioned with a smile.
Seems, she received’t be taking a break in any respect. Cantil-Sakauye begins as president and chief govt of the Public Coverage Institute of California on Jan. 1, the day her time period as chief justice ends. She will probably be 63.
“I’m each humbled and honored to have one other alternative to serve,” Cantil-Sakauye mentioned in an announcement of her new publish Wednesday. “I perceive this function will probably be completely different from my present one and but I imagine my skillset and expertise have ready me nicely for this activity.”
The PPIC is a nonprofit assume tank with a state mission to “inform and enhance public coverage in California via impartial, goal, nonpartisan analysis.”
Cantil-Sakauye mentioned she was “totally dedicated to PPIC’s nonpartisan mission and efforts to enhance public coverage in California via impartial analysis — with out a thumb on the dimensions.”
“In any case, who can say ‘no’ to information?” she mentioned.
Cantil-Sakauye will substitute PPIC’s present president and CEO, Mark Baldassare, who introduced his retirement in March.
PPIC’s new board chair, Chet Hewitt, mentioned he “couldn’t be extra happy” to welcome Cantil-Sakauye into her new function, which he mentioned the board unanimously authorised after “a rigorous search course of.”
“In the long run, we’ve chosen a CEO who has managed massive organizations and budgets and a extremely regarded chief who brings a monitor document of impartiality and a robust dedication to nonpartisan analysis and evaluation,” he mentioned.
California Supreme Courtroom Justice Patricia Guerrero has been confirmed to switch Cantil-Sakauye as chief justice in January, if authorised by voters in November.
Cantil-Sakauye, who was born in Sacramento, was the primary individual of shade and the second lady to function chief justice. She was sworn in because the state’s twenty eighth chief justice in January 2011 for a 12-year time period after being chosen by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican.
Throughout her tenure as chief, the seven justices of the California Supreme Courtroom routinely have been in settlement in choices reflecting the courtroom’s basic left-of-center orientation.