Joshua Groban

Joshua Paul Groban (born August 15, 1973) is an American lawyer who serves as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court. He was appointed to the California Supreme Court by Governor Jerry Brown on November 14, 2018.

Education and law career Groban was raised in Del Mar, California in a Jewish family and graduated from Torrey Pines High School. His father is a physician at University of California, San Diego hospital, and his mother, Deborah Isackson Groban, served as a member of Del Mar City Council. Groban attended Stanford University, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1995, and Harvard Law School, obtaining a Juris Doctor degree in 1998. He is related by marriage to the singer also named Josh Groban. He was in private practice at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City from 1999 to 2005, and at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles from 2005 to 2010. He was Brown's fourth appointment to the seven-member Supreme Court. Groban teaches State Appellate Practice at the UCLA School of Law. Groban was confirmed on December 21, 2018, and was sworn into office on January 3, 2019. He joined the court when it reconvened on January 8, 2019.

, following the 2022 election, he was retained by California voters to continue to serve as an associate justice with 68.4% of an affirmative vote.