The State - News from Jan. 9, 1987
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The state Judicial Appointments Commission will hold a public hearing Feb. 5 in San Francisco to consider the nomination of state Supreme Court Justice Malcolm M. Lucas to become chief justice of California. Earlier this week, Gov. George Deukmejian formally nominated Lucas, his former law partner, to succeed Rose Elizabeth Bird, one of three justices defeated by the voters last November. Lucas, 59, would take office upon confirmation by the three-member commission, made up of acting Chief Justice Allen E. Broussard, state Atty. Gen. John K. Van de Kamp and Appellate Justice Lester W. Roth, senior presiding justice of the state Court of Appeal.
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