Stanford law professor named to California Supreme Court

*These are the stories that aren’t shared enough. A Latino rises from the border between Texas and Mexico to teach law at Stanford, and from there to the highest court in California. His friends and family call him “Tino,” you have to love that. VL

By Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News

Growing up in a hardscrabble town along the Rio Grande in Mexico, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar crossed the border with his brother each day to attend school in Brownsville, Texas, long before his path led to Harvard, Yale and Stanford.

On Tuesday, Gov. Jerry Brown took Cuéllar’s immigrant journey to new heights, nominating the prominent Stanford University law professor to a vacancy on the California Supreme Court — in the process adding a Latino to the state’s high court and again choosing a legal scholar without judicial experience to reshape the court for decades to come.

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