The longest-serving member of the California Supreme Court, Justice Kathryn Werdegar, said on Wednesday that she will retire this summer, giving Gov. Jerry Brown the chance to select his fourth member of the panel in six years. "It has been a great privilege and honor to serve the people of California as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court for 23 years," Werdergar said in a written statement. Her​​​​​​ retirement means that Brown now gets to select a justice who could be the potentially decisive vote on the seven-member panel. When Werdegar retires, Justice Ming Chin, 74, will become the longest-serving member of the California Supreme Court.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 09, 2017 01:09 UTC