LOS ANGELES (AP) — A disability rights advocate will become the second openly transgender person to serve as a California judge after being appointed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Andi Mudryk, 58, chief deputy director at the Department of Rehabilitation, will serve on the Sacramento County Superior Court.
She follows in the path of Alameda Superior Court Judge Victoria Kolakowski, who became the first openly transgender judge after being elected in 2010.
“Andi Mudryk is a great appointment and will be a wonderful judge,” Kolakowski tweeted. “I’m glad to finally have a trans colleague on the bench in California.”
Mudryk has the distinction of being the first transgender person appointed to the California bench.
Her appointment comes as political battles are waged over transgender rights in the U.S. amid a culture war, and as Newsom seeks to leave a legacy of diversity on California courts.
On Friday, Utah became the 12th state to ban transgender youth athletes playing on girls teams when lawmakers overrode Gov. Spencer Cox’s veto.
Newsom is scheduled Monday to swear in Justice Patricia Guerrero as the first Latina on the California Supreme Court. She was confirmed unanimously on Tuesday. In 2020, he nominated the first openly gay justice, Martin Jenkins, who is the third Black person to serve on the high court.
LGBTQ organizations hailed Mudryk’s appointment and its timing.
“As governors and state legislatures across the country attack the trans community, we applaud Gov. Newsom’s continued commitment to increasing trans representation,” Tony Hoang, executive director of Equality California, said in a statement. “California continues to remind the rest of the country that LGBTQ+ voices are essential to achieve full equality.”
Mudryk, who has brittle bone disease, previously served as chief counsel at the Department of Rehabilitation and held various positions at several disability legal rights organizations.
Mudryk did not reply to an email from The Associated Press seeking comment.
Mudryk, a Democrat, has a law degree from George Washington University. She will receive $225,000 in annual compensation.
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This is not surprising, coming from the demonic Democrat Party ruled State of California.
To fully advance the Demonic, Lying, Treasonous, Socialist Democrat Party’s destructive agendas: is to divide our citizens with hate and promote; rioting, burning, looting, open borders, gun control, radical feminism, abortion-on-demand, the LGBTQ lifestyle, unfettered sexual identity, transgender “gay marriage” and the like, the pagan Liberal left Democrats must do away with GOD, our Constitution, common sense, morality, Christian values and free religious exercise altogether.
Under the guise of “anti-discrimination.”
One’s relationship with God is entirely between them and God.
One either follows Jesus Christ or they follow the devil.
John 8:44
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Can Andi tell us what a man and a woman is? Evidently not—he hasn’t figured out what he is, yet
AND that alone, to me, should BAR THEM from the bench.. IF THEY CANNOT IDENTIFY WHAT THEY ARE, how then can they identify WHAT GUILT or innocence are, BY THE LAW…
The moral filth of liberalism on display in communist California. The smell of a sewer with waste and rats, the liberal state of California.
At this rate, the ENTIRE state, is so rotten, there is NO SAVING IT imo…