Goodwin Liu | |
|---|---|
| 劉弘威 | |
 Liu in 2010 | |
| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California | |
| Assumed office September 1, 2011 | |
| Appointed by | Jerry Brown |
| Preceded by | Carlos Moreno |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Goodwin Hon Liu October 19, 1970 Augusta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic[1] |
| Spouse | |
| Education | Stanford University (BS) Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (MPhil) Yale University (JD) |
| Chinese name | |
| Traditional Chinese | 劉弘威 |
| Simplified Chinese | 刘弘威 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Liú Hóngwēi |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Liú Hóngwēi |
Goodwin Hon Liu (Chinese: 劉弘威; born October 19, 1970)[2] is an American jurist who has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California since 2011. Before his appointment by Governor Jerry Brown, Liu was associate dean and a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley.[3]
The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Liu attended Stanford University before graduating from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and then Yale Law School. On February 24, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Liu to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[4] For more than a year, Liu's nomination was delayed amid significant opposition from Republicans in the U.S. Senate.[5] On May 19, 2011, the Senate failed to invoke cloture on Liu's nomination with the necessary supermajority in a 52–43 vote,[6] and on May 25, 2011, Liu informed President Obama that he was withdrawing his name from consideration to the seat on the Ninth Circuit.[7]
On July 26, 2011, Governor Jerry Brown nominated Liu to a seat on the Supreme Court of California, succeeding Associate Justice Carlos R. Moreno.[8] Three days later, President Obama formally notified the Senate that he was withdrawing Liu's nomination for the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.[9] Liu was sworn into the California Supreme Court on September 1, 2011.[10]
- ^ Gerhart, Bryan (July 28, 2011). "Goodwin Liu's CA Supreme Court Nod Could Mean Big Win For Civil Rights". Goodlines.
- ^ "Justice Goodwin Liu". Robert Crown Law Library. Stanford Law School. 2012. Retrieved June 5, 2024.
- ^ "Berkeley Law - Faculty Profiles". UC Berkeley School of Law. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
- ^ "President Obama Nominates Goodwin Liu for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Judge Robert N. Chatigny for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit", whitehouse.gov (February 24, 2010).
- ^ Hulse, Carl (2011-05-19). "G.O.P. Blocks Judicial Nominee in a Sign of Battles to Come". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
- ^ "Senate Roll Call". Senate.gov. 2009-03-26. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
- ^ Dahlia Lithwick (May 25, 2011). "Goodwin Liu Withdraws". Slate.
- ^ Egelko, Bob (July 27, 2011). "Brown nominates Goodwin Liu for state high court". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Congressional Record for the Senate of July 29, 2011
- ^ Egelko, Bob (July 28, 2017). "Why you should care about who will sit on California's Supreme Court". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved August 20, 2017.