
Jake Dear
Chief Supervising Attorney of the California Supreme Court, serving under three Chief Justices across a 40-year career (UC Davis School of Law, Class of 1983).
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Aug 20, 2026
Jake Dear on the California Supreme Court, Judicial Independence, and a Life of Public Service
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Dan GrunfeldHOST
Uh, c- can you talk a little about that and what it felt like from the inside of the California Supreme Court as all of this was going on?

Jake DearGUEST
In, in, in the closing year or, and, and, and months of, of the George tenure, um, there had been quite a bit of, um...

Jake DearGUEST
There was animosity that was coming his way from a group that styled or called themselves the Alliance, uh, California Alliance of Judges or some term like that.

Jake DearGUEST
There was never any list of names, but, um, there were a, a few names that, that were surfacing regularly.

Dan GrunfeldHOST
But are there any cases that you know that when they are accepted for hearing and decision that the court as a whole has a sense that this is really important, that, that history is looking over your shoulder, um, in terms of what happens with this particular decision? D- are there cases like that that stick out in your mind? Uh-