Transgender judge makes history

http://dot429.com/articles/2011/01/04/transgender-trial-judge-makes-history

by dot429

"On Jan. 4, 2011, moments before making history at a special en banc session of the Superior Court of California by taking an oath of office to be the first openly transgender trial judge in the country, Victoria Kolakowski (who underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1991) spoke exclusively with dot429 in her dressing room at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center."

As previously mentioned by Zythrya, Kolakowski won by 51% of votes to become a County of Alameda trial judge.