LAKEPORT – Lake County has a new superior court judge.

Andrew S. Blum, 50, of Lakeport will succeed Judge Arthur Mann, who announced his retirement last August, as Lake County News has reported.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Blum's appointment to the judgeship on Wednesday.

Blum, who is a Republican, will earn $178,789 annually as a superior court judge, according to the governor's office.

A message left for Blum wasn't returned Wednesday.

Most recently, Blum has served as trial counsel for the Commission on Judicial Performance since 2003, according to his biography.

He earned a juris doctorate degree from the University of California, San Francisco's Hastings College of the Law and a bachelor of arts degree from California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks.

Blum was a research attorney for the Santa Clara County Superior Court from 1984 to 1985, moving on to work as a deputy district attorney in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office from 1985 to 1989.

He served the Lake County District Attorney’s Office as a deputy district attorney from 1989 to 1991 and chief deputy district attorney from 1992 to 1997.

From 1997 to 2000, Blum was the assistant attorney general, then the attorney general for Kosrae State, Micronesia.

Blum was a high school English teacher from 2001 to 2002 before joining the Commission on Judicial Performance, the governor's office reported.

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