HIGH HONORS
On July 22, Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuéllar, MA '96, PhD '00, was nominated by Gov. Jerry Brown to serve as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court, replacing the Honorable Marvin R. Baxter, who will retire on January 4, 2015. Cuéllar is currently the director of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, a senior fellow at the institute and a professor at the Law School. His public service experience includes serving as a law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and he has worked in both the Obama and Clinton administrations. Cuéllar's nomination is pending approval by the state's Commission on Judicial Appointments; if the nomination is approved, his name will appear on voters' ballots in November.
NEW DIRECTION
After a career spanning more than four decades at Seattle's KING 5 news station, Jean Enersen, '66, MA '67, MA '69, stepped down from her position as daily news anchor in June. But Enersen, America's first female local TV news anchor and an Emmy award winner, isn't leaving the station entirely. She plans to focus her passion for personal and community health on her work with KING 5's popular HealthLink reports. Enersen will also assist with the station's award-winning political and major news event coverage, as well as its other special reports, including Northwest Newsmakers.
QUICK THINKING
Frank Primus, '99, a surgery resident at UCSF, took the heroics beyond the operating room on June 20, 2013 in San Francisco. When the 43-Masonic Muni bus that he was riding hit a car, jumped a curb and kept on going, plowing through a public park, the former Stanford cornerback sprang from his seat, ran to the front of the bus and applied the brakes for the driver, who appeared to be in shock. Primus was able to stop the runaway vehicle before it careened into four lanes of oncoming traffic. The bus driver was hospitalized for back pain, but there were no other injuries.
