Ioana PetrouIncumbent

Candidate for Court of Appeal Justice, California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division 3, Seat 2

Ioana Petrou is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Three. She graduated with highest distinction from UC Berkeley in 1988. She earned her J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law in 1993. During law school, she was an extern for Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine of the Fourth District Court of Appeal. In private practice, she worked at Foley and Lardner LLP after law school. She later was counsel at O'Melveny and Myers LLP from 2002 to 2004. She served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York. She served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of California from 2004 to 2010. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed her to the Alameda County Superior Court in 2010. She served there until 2018. She sat on the board of the California Judges Association from 2014 to 2017. Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. appointed her to the Court of Appeal in 2018. Voters retained her in the November 2022 election. Her current term expires in early January 2027. So she appears again on the November 3, 2026 ballot. It is a nonpartisan yes-or-no retention vote. There is no opposing candidate.

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