When attorney Peter E. Borkon takes his oath of office as a judge sometime in early 2022, he will bring the number of LGBTQ people serving on the Alameda County Superior Court to 10.
A gay Asian federal law clerk will be joining the Alameda County Superior Court, bringing the number of out judges on the East Bay bench to eight in early 2021.
Governor Gavin Newsom named Oakland resident Keith Kern Fong, 58, to a vacancy on the court December 8. Fong was one of three judicial appointments to the Alameda bench that Newsom announced earlier this month.
Fong, a Democrat, will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Ronni B. MacLauren. He has been a law clerk for Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong at the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California since 2009.