Judge Ursula Jones Dickson is New Alameda County District Attorney

Wow! The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted and announced a new district attorney Tuesday night – and it wasn’t the candidate that California Attorney General Rob Bonta was pushing on the Alameda Board.

The board chose Judge Ursula Jones Dickson, after three rounds of voting, ABC7 News reported. The board chose Jones Dickson instead of Bonta’s chief deputy Venus Johnson as the replacement for recalled DA Pamela Price.

Wow.

Did I say WOW?

Judge Ursula Jones Dickson was an Alameda County prosecutor from 1998 to 2013, before she was appointed to the bench.

As we reported Monday, “CA AG Rob Bonta is pushing his incompetent chief deputy Venus Johnson for Oakland DA. She is former director of Oakland’s Department of Public Safety, former legal and policy advisor to Kamala Harris when she was AG, and former chief assistant DA in Contra Costa County,” Journalist Susan Dyer Reynolds recently warned on X.

Thanks to excellent reporting by Susan Dyer Reynolds (and the Globe), Rob Bonta’s dubious candidate was not named.

“Jones-Dickson is an Alameda County Superior Court judge. She previously worked as a deputy DA for the county,” ABC7 reported.

Alameda County has issues – big corruption issues. Choosing a legitimate jurist and former prosecutor will make a difference.

Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Judge Ursula Jones Dickson to the Superior Court in Pleasanton in 2013.

Judge Jones Dickson will be sworn in as Alameda County District Attorney in February and serve in the role until the next general election in 2026, said ABC7.

Despite AG Rob Bonta pushing his weight around to get his chief deputy appointed as DA for the recalled Soros DA, sanity prevailed.

As we said, “There is a reason these Soros DAs were recalled.” Let the healing begin.