Gov. Schwarzenegger Appoints Sara Granda '09 to State Post

Sara Granda '09, who made headlines across the nation and drew praise from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for her legal fight to take the California State Bar Exam, has been named by the governor to a legal position in the Department of Health Care Services.  She will serve as a special assistant to the chief counsel for the Department of Health Care Services, where she interned in 2007 and 2008.

Granda took and passed the exam in July 2009 after successfully petitioning the California Supreme Court to order the State Bar to allow her to take the test after it had previously rejected her application as a result of a problem in its automated system.  Granda, who was injured in an automobile accident and has been paralyzed from the neck down since age 17, won praise from Gov. Schwarzenegger and Dean Kevin R. Johnson for her efforts.