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News Briefs: Panel to feature out Santa Clara judges

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Three LGBTQ judges on the Santa Clara County Superior Court will participate in a panel discussion presented by History San José and the BAYMEC Community Foundation Saturday, February 12, from 1 to 2:30 p.m.

at History Park, 635 Phelan Avenue in San Jose. The judges will discuss their lives and careers, and it marks the first time that out South Bay judges have come together to take part in such an event, organizers said.

Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Judge Julie Emede, a lesbian, to the bench in 2010. She received her law degree from UC Hastings College of the Law and practiced family law for her own firm prior to her appointment.

Emede and her partner, Marci Garcia, have been together for 31 years and married in October 2008, just before Proposition 8, the same-sex marriage ban, was passed by California voters.

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