Monique Langhorne WilsonIncumbent

Candidate for Court of Appeal Justice, California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division 1, Seat 4

Monique S. Langhorne Wilson is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division One. She earned a B.A. in rhetoric and African American studies from UC Berkeley in 1996. She earned a J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law. Her legal career has been rooted in Napa County. She served as a deputy district attorney in the Napa County District Attorney's Office before 2006. She was the first African American to serve as a prosecutor there. In 2006 she was picked as a commissioner of the Napa County Superior Court. She was the first African American to sit on the Napa bench. She served in that role until 2018. In 2018, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. appointed her a judge of the Napa County Superior Court. She kept that seat in a contested Napa County election in 2020. Governor Gavin Newsom appointed her to the Court of Appeal in December 2023. The Commission on Judicial Appointments confirmed her in January 2024. California appellate justices must be confirmed by voters at the next governor's race. So she is on the November 3, 2026 ballot. It is a nonpartisan yes-or-no retention vote. Voters in the First Appellate District will decide if she stays in office. There is no opposing candidate.

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