{"id":146990,"date":"2026-03-23T18:26:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/23\/california-chief-justice-asks-legislature-to-help-significantly-underpaid-judges\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T18:26:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:26:44","slug":"california-chief-justice-asks-legislature-to-help-significantly-underpaid-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/23\/california-chief-justice-asks-legislature-to-help-significantly-underpaid-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"California Chief Justice Asks Legislature to Help ‘Significantly Underpaid’ Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"

In her annual State of the Judiciary address to the Legislature, Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero said a disparity between judges’ salaries and pay for attorneys employed by other state and local entities “jeopardizes the judicial branch’s ability to attract and retain the best-qualified candidates.”<\/p>\n

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In her annual State of the Judiciary address to the Legislature, Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero said a disparity between judges’ salaries and pay for attorneys employed by other state and local entities “jeopardizes the judicial branch’s ability to attract and retain the best-qualified candidates.”<\/p>\n

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In her annual State of the Judiciary address to the Legislature, Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero said a disparity between judges’ salaries and pay for attorneys employed by other state and local entities “jeopardizes the judicial branch’s ability to attract and retain the best-qualified candidates.” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In her annual State of the Judiciary address to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/legal-news-hGUb0l.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}