California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Ioana Petrou ’93 of Oakland to a judgeship in the Alameda County Superior Court. Since 2004, Petrou has been an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, where she was both chief of major crimes and criminal health care fraud coordinator. Previously, Petrou served as counsel for O’Melveny and Myers and was an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Prior to that, she was an associate for Foley and Lardner from 1995 to 1999 and for Proskauer Rose from 1994 to 1995. Petrou will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Morris Beatus.