“It made history for us and for California’s future,” Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said. He added that “it is such a meaningful and worthy appointment”. In addition, Guerrero’s rise restored a majority of the four women to the seven-member court, Cantil-Sakauy said. Guerrero, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, offers a “different perspective than has ever been offered in this court,” Governor Gavin Newsom said before the swearing-in. But Newsom said his appointment as Guerrero “is not only the first, but the best”. Guerrero, 50, from San Diego, who grew up in the Imperial Valley, said in a brief note that it was the product of “the courage, sacrifice and struggle of my parents and grandparents.” “They came to this country knowing it would not be easy for them,” he said. “But like many others, they came here with hope – hope for a brighter future for their children, the pursuit… of the American Dream.” Guerrero fills the vacancy left in October when Deputy Judge Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar resigned.
