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The last county to achieve trial court unification was Kern County, where the state's last four municipal court judges were sworn in by Chief Justice Ronald M. George as superior court judges on February 8, 2001. [26] Therefore, at present, the superior courts are actually not "superior" to any inferior courts within the judicial branch.
Justices are elected for 12 year terms at the same time as the Governor. When a judge's term is expiring another judge from a different court can file a declaration of candidacy to succeed to the office presently held by the judge. [20] Most of California's roughly 1,600 superior court judges are first appointed by the governor of California. [21]
Joginder Dhillon: [209] First Sikh male appointed as a Judge of the Superior Court of Sacramento (2018) Daniel J. Calabretta: [210] First openly LGBT male appointed as a Judge of the Superior Court of Sacramento (2019) Thien Ho: [211] [212] First Asian American male (of Vietnamese descent) to serve as the District Attorney for Sacramento County ...
A superior court judge must have been an attorney admitted to practice law in California or have served as a judge of a court of record in this state for at least 10 years immediately preceding an ...
The race to replace an embattled former Superior Court judge was hanging in the balance by just 13 votes on Tuesday night. Court Commissioner Bronson Brown had a sliver of a lead with 49.8%, or ...
Merced County has three candidates vying for a Merced County Superior Court Judge seat in the upcoming March 5 primary election. Attorney. Monika Saini-Donabed, a Livingston native and graduate of ...
Senior status is a form of semi-retirement for United States federal judges.To qualify, a judge in the federal court system must be at least 65 years old, and have served at least 10 years, and the sum of the judge's age and years of service as a federal judge must be at least 80 years. [1]
Norma Rodriguez: [54] First Latino American female to serve as a Judge of the Benton-Franklin Superior Court, Washington (2022) Carol Wardell: [55] First female judge in Chelan and Douglas Counties, Washington (1991) Carol Fuller: [56] First female to serve as a superior court judge in Mason and Thurston Counties, Washington (1979)