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January 28th, 2004
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced today four appointments at the California Resources Agency: Karen Scarborough as undersecretary, Sandra S. Ikuta as deputy secretary and general counsel, Crawford McClain Tuttle as deputy secretary of external affairs, and Melinda Tracy Terry as deputy secretary of legislation.
Ikuta most recently was a partner at the Los Angeles office of O'Melveny & Myers where she has practiced since 1990. As co-chair of the firm's environmental group, she specializes in environmental and natural resources law. She previously served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She earned her law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and holds a Master of Science from Columbia University School of Journalism. She also has an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Ikuta, 49, is a resident of Los Angeles and a registered Republican.
http://www.schwarzenegger.com/news.asp?id=1448
New nominations to the U.S. Courts of Appeals: Today the White House announced the following two nominations:
Sandra Segal Ikuta, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, vice James R. Browning, retired.
Michael Brunson Wallace, of Mississippi, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, vice Charles W. Pickering, Sr., retired.
Additional information about Ms. Ikuta can be accessed here, while Mr. Wallace's law firm bio is here
http://legalaffairs.org/howappealing/020806.html#011078

See also http://www.confirmthem.com/?p=2212#comments for some additional preliminary commentary. I also found, in a google search, a title of Ikuta's -- Sandra Segal Ikuta, Dying at the Right Time: A Critical Legal Theory Approach to Timing-of-Death Issues, 5 ISSUES L. & MED. 3, 3-66 (1989).