A Nigerian woman, Bunmi Awoniyi, has been appointed to the Sacramento
County Superior Court in California, U.S., the News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) reports.
According
to local media reports, Awoniyi, 48, and Steven Gevercer’s appointments
were announced by Governor Edmund Brown Jr. of California.
Awoniyi
has served as a principal attorney with a family law firm since 1994 as
well as an adjunct professor at the University of Northern California,
Lorenzo Patino School of Law from 1997 to 1998.
She is an
associate attorney at the Law Office of Steven L. Wessels from 1993 to
1994 and an associate attorney at the Law Office of Brady and Kent from
1992 to 1993.
Also, Awoniyi was a law clerk at the Law Office of
D. Kapp Nees in 1991 and a crown prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution
Service in London from 1989 to 1990.
She earned a Juris Doctorate
degree from the Inns of Court School of Law, a Masters of Law degree
from the University of Leicester School of Law, and a Bachelor of Law
degree from the University of Essex.
Awoniyi is a certified family
law specialist. She fills the vacancy created by the conversion of a
court commissioner position on December 3, 2011.
“I could not be
more delighted or excited. It has been a whirlwind 24 hours the fruit of
a year long arduous interview and screening process and an application
that took me the better part of a year to complete.
“Through all
of the many lost hours on the weekends and evenings devoted to this
process, to see it come to manifestation is truly marvelous.
“I am humbled and God is so good. It is a new season,” Awoniyi, a Democrat said on her appointment.
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