The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Riverside Superior Judge Sunshine Sykes March 10, 12-10, in her potentially historic nomination as the first Native American district judge in the California Central District Court.
“When I first started as a judicial officer in Riverside eight years ago, I had a caseload of over 900 cases in my unlimited civil department, and that, as you know, is a wealth of cases,” Sykes said at her Feb. 1 nomination hearing. “I started out straight, handling jury trials one after the other, and I continued that until I was recently chosen to be on a complex civil litigation department. In that capacity over a period of two
