In 1997 a public association of the faithful, the Norbertine Association of St. Joseph, was established by the Canons Regular of Premontre of St. Michael's Norbertine Abbey in Orange, California. In 2000 the public association took up the common life in Tehachapi, California. In January 2011 the association was recognized as an autonomous priory of Canonesses Regular of Premontre by the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life, the Abbot General and his council of the Norbertine Order and the diocese of Fresno, California. One of two known communities of Canonesses Regular in the United States, they have grown from the original five foundresses to 49 sisters as of September, 2019.