Desert Sun, Number 190, 13 March 1984 — Governor appoints friend [ARTICLE]

Governor appoints friend

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Republican Gov George Deukmejian’s first appointee to the state Supreme Court is a friend and former law partner: U S. District Judge Malcolm Lucas. After the announcement Monday, Lucas, 56, of Los Alamitos, was generally described by lawyers and judges as a knowledgeable. even-tempered conservative. He succeeds the court’s most conservative member, Frank Richardson, whose retirement last December left the court with six appointees of Democratic governors five by Edmund Brown Jr. and one by his father, Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Said James Dunn, federal public defender in Los

Angeles, “I think he will be on the conservative side, probably a moderate conservative. I don’t think he’s ideologically set in stone.”