A Santa Rosa family attorney will serve on the Sonoma County Bench. The Press Democrat reports that Governor Gavin Newsom has selected Kinna Patel Crocker to fill the Sonoma Superior Court vacancy left by retired Judge Arthur Wick. She will be a judge in criminal misdemeanor court starting late next week. Crocker, who is of East Indian descent, immigrated to the US from the UK with her family when she was 2-years-old and became a citizen at 16. She graduated from the University of San Francisco school of law and has been practicing law since 2003. She started her own practice, Crocker Law, in 2013 providing legal services to individuals and couples regarding adoptions, along with marriage and domestic partnership divorce proceedings.