A California judicial ethics committee on Tuesday issued a formal opinion addressing whether a judge may appoint the attorney spouse of a judicial colleague to serve as minor’s counsel in a family law matter before the judge.

Justice Marsha G. Slough, who served on California's Fourth District Court of Appeal and was a two-decade veteran of the state judiciary, died on Saturday following an illness. She was 68.

The Commission on Judicial Appointments will hold public in-person hearings in San Francisco on Aug. 19-20 to consider eight appointments to California’s Courts of Appeal in Sacramento, San Jose, Ventura, Los Angeles, Santa Ana, and San Diego.