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San Mateo County was created by exclusion from the City and County of San Francisco when it was incorporated in 1856; [4]: 1 San Mateo County was re-established by an act passed on April 18, 1857, which also made Redwood City the county seat and included provisions for the first County Court, with sessions to be held in March, June, and November of each year. [5]
LaDoris Hazzard Cordell (born November 19, 1949) is an American retired judge of the Superior Court of California, and a retired Independent Police Auditor for the city of San Jose, California. As the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at Stanford Law School (1978-82), Cordell developed an admissions program that led to a dramatic increase in ...
Many of California's larger superior courts have specialized divisions for different types of cases like criminal, civil, traffic, small claims, probate, family, juvenile, and complex litigation, but these divisions are simply administrative assignments that can be rearranged at the discretion of each superior court's presiding judge in ...
New District Judge Beth Labson Freeman receives the oath of office from Northern District Chief Judge Claudia Ann Wilken (April 24, 2014). On June 20, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Freeman to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, to a new seat created on October 3, 2011, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 133(b)(1 ...
Article III federal judges are those appointed under Article III, Section 1 of the U.S Constitution. Due to the Compensation Clause, these judges are federal judges that may not have their salaries diminished during their time in office, and are appointed to indefinite terms and may not be removed unless they resign or are impeached.
Kane was born in Denver in 1926, graduated from Burlingame High School in San Mateo County, California, in 1944, and then served in the US Navy. [1] He entered the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1949, graduated in 1952, and worked in law until 1969, when he was appointed to the San Mateo County Superior Court by then Governor of California Ronald Reagan. [1]
William Johnson Elfving (born March 17, 1941) is an American lawyer and former judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. [3] [4] He was appointed to the bench on November 13, 1997, and retired in 2017. [5] Prior to his appointment he was in private practice for 30 years.
The superior courts have appellate divisions (superior court judges sitting as appellate judges) which hear appeals from decisions of other superior court judges (or commissioners, or judges pro tem) who heard and decided relatively minor cases that previously would have been heard in inferior courts, such as infractions, misdemeanors, and ...