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Initially, upon the creation of Solano County Superior Court in 1884, there was only one superior court judge. [23] Beginning in 1943 (Stats. 1943, ch. 628), the number of judges began to steadily increase. [24] By 1985, California law at the time allowed for Solano County to have 5 superior court judges and 3 municipal court judges.
The Solano Superior Court, which covers the entire county, is not a County department but a division of the State's trial court system. Historically, the courthouses were county-owned buildings that were maintained at county expense, which created significant friction since the trial court judges, as officials of the state government, had to ...
[16] To fix this colossal mess, the judicial council proposed and the legislature enacted the Court Act of 1949 to reduce the number of types of inferior courts to two: municipal courts and justice of the peace courts, which were renamed "justice courts". [16] This dropped the total number of courts in California to less than 400. [13]
Solano County (/ s ə ˈ l ɑː n oʊ / ⓘ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, its population was 453,491. [6] The county seat is Fairfield. [7] Solano County comprises the Vallejo–Fairfield metropolitan statistical area, which is also included in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, combined ...
Unlike the Supreme Court, where one justice is specifically nominated to be chief, the office of chief judge rotates among the district court judges. To be chief, a judge must have been in active service on the court for at least one year, be under the age of 65, and have not previously served as chief judge.
This combination of images from top left shows 2019 Sonoma County Sheriff's office booking mug shots of Jack LaSota, Alexander Leatham, Emma Borhanian and, at bottom left, Gwen Danielson, court ...
California State Senate election, 2016; Primary election Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Bill Dodd: 90,396 37.4% Democratic: Mariko Yamada: 72,243 29.9%
Dora M. Rios (1999): [304] First Latino American female Judge of the Solano County Superior Court (2017) Bernadette Curry (1998): [305] First female to serve as the County Counsel for Solano County (2019) Marlo Nisperos: [306] First Filipino American (female) appointed as a Judge of the Solano County Superior Court (2024)