Victor G. ViramontesIncumbent

Candidate for Court of Appeal Justice, California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division 8, Seat 4

Victor Viramontes is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Eight, in Los Angeles. He earned a B.A. from Stanford University. He earned a J.D. from Yale Law School. He began his legal career in 1999, as a law clerk to Judge Carlos R. Moreno of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. He then worked as an associate at a firm called Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, from 2000 to 2001. He joined the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, known as MALDEF, as a staff attorney, from 2001 to 2005. He then worked at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, first as a trial attorney from 2005 to 2008, and then as a senior trial attorney from 2008 to 2010. He went back to MALDEF in 2010, this time as national senior counsel. In November 2017, Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. put him on the Los Angeles County Superior Court. On October 7, 2022, Gov. Gavin Newsom put his name up for the Second District Court of Appeal, Division Eight. He took the seat that had been held by Justice Maria E. Stratton. The Commission on Judicial Appointments confirmed him, with no votes against, in November 2022. He took his oath on November 30, 2022. His confirmation came after the November 2022 election had already passed. So the November 3, 2026 general election will be his first nonpartisan retention vote. Voters will mark yes or no on whether to keep him in his seat. No one is running against him. If most voters mark yes, he keeps his seat.

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