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Bunmi Awoniyi making history as Sacramento’s first Black presiding Superior Court judge
The London-born daughter of Nigerian immigrants is the first Black jurist to serve as presiding judge of Sacramento Superior Court. Elected unanimously in September, she began her two-year term on Jan. 1. Awoniyi was previously the court’s assistant …