Remke named presiding State Bar Court judge
State Bar Court Judge Joann Remke has been named the new presiding judge of
the State Bar Court by the California Supreme Court. The high court, which
made the appointment last month, also announced that State Bar Court Hearing
Judge State Bar Court Hearing Judge Patrice McElroy was reappointed.
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Remke, 41, appointed for a six-year term, replaces Presiding Judge Ronald
Stovitz, who is retiring effective Nov. 1. McElroy, 53, was named to a new
six-year term starting Nov. 1. She was first appointed as a judge of the State
Bar Hearing Department in November 2001.
The Senate Rules Committee appointed Remke to the State Bar Court as a hearing
judge in 2000 and reappointed her in 2004. She was supervising judge of the
State Bar Court Hearing Department in 2004 and 2005. A graduate of the University
of Illinois and McGeorge School of Law, Remke was an associate at Miller, Starr & Regalia
in Oakland, a bankruptcy specialist for Providian Bancorps, a VISTA attorney
in Montana, coordinator of the Fair Housing Program in Minnesota and counsel
to the California Senate Judiciary Commit-tee before joining the State Bar
Court.
A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Hastings College
of the Law, McElroy was a staff attorney for the National Center for Youth
Law, a San Francisco public defender, and a solo practitioner specializing
in juvenile delinquency and juvenile dependency before joining the State Bar
Court in 2001.
The State Bar Court is the only disciplinary court in the nation that uses
professional judges and often is held up as the most effective state bar court
as well.
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