Schwarzenegger Appoints Three Judges

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week appointed two prosecutors and one attorney in private practice to the bench in San Bernardino County. All three will replace retiring jurists.
Schwarzenegger elevated Lorenzo R. Balderrama, of Redlands, to the bench as a replacement for judge John P. Wade.
Balderrama, 57, was hired by former district attorney Jim Cramer as a deputy prosecutor in 1982 and had been with the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s office ever since. He is a graduate of Harvard and took a law degree from Western State University College of Law and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University. Balderama is a Democrat.
Schwarzenegger selected another deputy prosecutor and Democrat, Robert Glenn Yabuno, to replace immediate past presiding judge James C. McGuire, who has just retired.
Yabuno, 52, of Highland, has been lead deputy district attorney for San Bernardino County since 1991. Yabuno was in private practice from 1988 to 1991 with the law firm of Borror, Dunn and Scott. He had previously, from 1984 to 1988, worked as a deputy district attorney with San Bernardino County. He has a bachelor of arts degree from Cal State Fresno and a law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law.
Schwarzenegger went to Riverside County to find the only Republican of the trio he appointed last week. Barbara A. Buchholz, an attorney with the firm of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith was tapped to replace  J. Michael Gunn.
Buchholz, 53, previously worked with the law firms of Raul B. Garcia, Reid & Hellyer, Bradford and Barthel and Bell, Orrock, & Watase. She resides across the county line in Norco. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cal State Fullerton and a law degree from Southwestern University School of Law.