2022 in California
The year 2022 in California involved several major events.
Incumbents
- Governor: Gavin Newsom
- Lieutenant Governor: Eleni Kounalakis
- Chief Justice: Tani Cantil-Sakauye
- Senate president pro tempore: Toni Atkins
- Speaker of the Assembly: Anthony Rendon
Politics
California State Legislature, 2021–2022 session- January 3: United States v. Elizabeth A. Holmes, et al.
- September 29: The Zacky Bill
- November 8: 2022 California elections
- November 14-December 23: 2022 University of California academic workers' strike
Crime
- January 13: Murder of Brianna Kupfer
- April 3: 2022 Sacramento shooting
- May 15: 2022 Laguna Woods shooting
- July 11: 2022 Brink's theft
- July 16: Killing of Rob Marquise Adams
- September 27: Stockton serial shootings
- September 28: 2022 Oakland school shooting
- October 28: Attack on Paul Pelosi
Geography
- 2022 California wildfires
- December 2021-January 2022: 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami
- July–August 2022 United States floods
- December 20: 2022 Ferndale earthquake
- December 26-: 2022–2023 California floods