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38 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. 175 (2007-2008)
The Servant of All: Humility, Humanity, and Judicial Diversity

handle is hein.journals/ggulr38 and id is 179 raw text is: ARTICLE THE SERVANT OF ALL: HUMILITY, HUMANITY, AND JUDICIAL DIVERSITY MICHAEL NAVA* Whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all.' We do not, but we could, demand that those who hold power do so with attentive love, with care, with nurturance, with a responsible sense of one's self as connected to and dependent upon those who are being judged.2 INTRODUCTION Among the many claims made on behalf of a diverse judiciary, to my knowledge, no judge or academic commentator has argued that such diversity-that is, the inclusion on the bench of people of color, women, gays and lesbians, and similarly underrepresented groups-would infuse the bench with two qualities not ordinarily associated in the public mind with judges: humility and humanity.3 Indeed, my research has revealed * Judicial Staff Attorney to Associate Justice Carlos R. Moreno of the California Supreme Court and a published novelist. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author alone. Mark 10:44. 2 Judith Resnik, On the Bias: Feminist Reconsiderations of the Aspirations for Our Judges, 61 CAL. L. REV, 1877, 1925 (1988). 3 The dominance on the bench, both at the federal level and in California, by White, upper- class, heterosexual males is so well-documented as to have become a truism. As of 1997, only 3.8% of the state court judges and only six percent of federal judges were African-American. Edward M. Chen, The Judiciary, Diversity, and Justice for All, 91 CAL. L. REV. 1109, 1111-14 (2003) (cited in James Andrew Wynn, Jr. and Eli Paul Mazur, Judicial Diversity: Where Independence and

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