Chief Justice of California Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye speaks during a public hearing held by the Commission on Judicial Appointments to consider the selection of Judge Kelli Evans to the California Supreme Court in San Francisco, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. Two days after voters approved Patricia Guerrero to become California's first Latina Supreme Court chief justice in January, a state panel has approved Evans to be the high court's first openly lesbian justice. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, Pool) POOL PHOTO