Congratulations to ACBA Members Diane Meier, Julie Wilensky, and Cara Sandberg on your appointment to the Alameda County Superior Court!

ACBA member Diane Meier, of Alameda County, has been appointed to serve as a Judge in the Alameda County Superior Court. Meier has served as an Appellate Court Attorney in the First District Court of Appeal since 2018. She was a Senior Staff Attorney in the Solano County Superior Court from 2010 to 2018. She worked as a Legal Research Attorney in the San Mateo County Superior Court in 2009. Meier received a Juris Doctor degree from the Washington and Lee University School of Law. She fills the vacancy created by the elevation of Judge Charles A. Smiley to the Court of Appeal. 

ACBA member Julie Wilensky, of Alameda County, has been appointed to serve as a Judge in the Alameda County Superior Court. Wilensky has served as a Deputy City Attorney at the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office since 2022. She was a Senior Staff Attorney at the National Center for Lesbian Rights from 2018 to 2022. Wilensky served as a Deputy County Counsel at the Santa Clara County Counsel’s Office from 2017 to 2018. She was a Senior Counsel at Disability Rights California from 2016 to 2017. She worked as a Director at the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center (now Disability Law United) from 2015 to 2016. Wilensky was a Shareholder at Lewis, Feinberg, Lee & Jackson, P.C. in 2015, where she was also an Associate from 2010 to 2015. Wilensky served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr. at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2009 to 2010 and for the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York from 2008 to 2009. She was a Thomas Emerson Fellow at David Rosen & Associates from 2007 to 2008. Wilensky received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School. She fills the vacancy created by the appointment of Judge Noel Wise to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.