Angela Storey
Angela Storey was a candidate for the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, California Office 18 in the Aaron Persky recall election on June 5, 2018. Persky was targeted for recall following his sentencing of Stanford student Brock Turner in a 2015 sexual assault. Recall supporters said the six-month sentence was too lenient.
Attorney Angela Storey ran to replace Persky despite her opposition to his recall. She said her experience in civil and criminal law would make her a fair and qualified candidate to replace him if he was recalled. She announced her campaign in February 2018.[1] According to Persky ally LaDoris Cordell, recall opponents generally supported Storey.[2] Mercury News also endorsed her.[3]
Storey said she opposed the recall (despite being a victim of sexual assault in college) because of judicial independence principles and the possibility that judges would give harsher sentences to people of color if they feared recalls.[2]
"From my perspective, a judge's job is to make difficult choices and to make rulings that people aren't going to always agree with," she said. "We don't want our judges necessarily looking over their shoulders trying to gauge public opinion."[4] She said that Turner's sentence was within the law, but she declined to say whether she agreed with it. She also called the recall a “dangerous precedent” and said that voters should focus on changing laws when they disagree with outcomes rather than removing judges.[1]
Storey worked as a trial lawyer in the insurance, construction, and business law fields after being admitted to the California Bar in 2001. She joined her husband's practice, afterward known as Storey & Storey, in 2013 and practiced personal injury law. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and her J.D. from Santa Clara Law School.[4]
Elections
2018
Storey was a candidate in the Aaron Persky recall election on June 5, 2018. If a majority of voters voted to recall Persky, the nominee with the most votes would be elected to the remainder of his term, which was slated to end in 2022.[5] Candidates to succeed Persky had to either pay a $2,000 filing fee or submit 6,002 community signatures to get on the ballot. The deadline for submitting signatures was February 20, 2018, and the deadline for filing a notice to run was March 2, 2018.[6]
| Aaron Persky recall, 2018 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Yes |
61.6% | 202,849 |
| No | 38.4% | 126,459 |
| Total Votes | 329,308 | |
| Source: Santa Clara County elections | ||
| Aaron Persky recall (replacement candidate), 2018 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Cindy Seeley Hendrickson |
68.0% | 174,045 |
| Angela Storey | 32.0% | 82,042 |
| Total Votes | 256,087 | |
| Source: Santa Clara County elections | ||
See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Mercury News, "Persky recall opponent joins race to replace embattled judge," February 8, 2018
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Palo Alto Weekly, "Candidates for Persky's seat steer clear of Turner case," May 11, 2018
- ↑ Mercury News, "Storey is Best Replacement if Persky is Recalled," May 22, 2018
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Palo Alto Online, "San Jose lawyer enters recall race," February 16, 2018
- ↑ California Constitution, "Final steps in the recall: Recall elections," accessed February 12, 2018
- ↑ SFGate, "Voters to decide on recall of judge in Stanford sexual assault case," February 6, 2018
Federal courts:
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Central District of California, Eastern District of California, Northern District of California, Southern District of California • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Central District of California, Eastern District of California, Northern District of California, Southern District of California
State courts:
California Supreme Court • California Courts of Appeal • California Superior Courts
State resources:
Courts in California • California judicial elections • Judicial selection in California
