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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 ...
In June, 1998, California passed Proposition 220, which allowed the judges in each county to determine if the county should have only one trial court. By 2001, all 58 counties had consolidated their courts into a single superior court. The California courts of appeal were added to the judicial branch by a constitutional amendment in 1904.
Stephen K. Tamura: [58] [59] [196] First Japanese American (and Asian American in general) male lawyer, county counsel and Superior Court Judge in Orange County, California. John Nho Trong Nguyen: [197] First Vietnamese American male to serve as a Judge of the Superior Court of Orange County (2000)
The judges are two of 16 appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to California superior courts statewide. ... in California or have served as a judge of a court of record in California for at least 10 ...
Finally on January 22, 2000, in accordance with Proposition 220 passed in 1998, the Judges of the Municipal and Superior Courts voted to merge into the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. [2] In 2000, a pilot Complex Civil Litigation Program was established in the Los Angeles Superior Court, [3] which has since been made ...
Wayne Superior Court (Judge Pro Tem: 2009); Dearborn Superior Court (2000–2008); Dearborn County Court (1985–2000) Indiana: retired [505] Alvin T. Wong State Court of DeKalb County, Division 1 (1998– ) Georgia: active [506] Cerena Wong Sonoma County Superior Court (1997–2010) California: retired [507] Delbert E. Wong
Melinda M. Reed (1979) and Elisabeth B. Krant-Latronico (1980): [385] [386] [387] Per available sources, the first females to serve respectively as municipal court judges in Tulare County, California (1993-1995). They would both later become superior court judges in 1998.
Courts of California include: Headquarters of the Supreme Court of California, in San Francisco. State courts of record of California. Supreme Court of California [1] California Courts of Appeal (6 appellate districts) [2] Superior Courts of California (58 courts, one for each county) [3] State quasi-administrative courts of California