Judicial Officers - Superior Court Judges and Commissioners
The current Presiding Judge is the Honorable
Jamie A. Jacobs-May. There
are 89 judges and commissioners at the Superior Court in
Santa Clara County. (A commissioner is a
subordinate judicial officer appointed by the judges of the Court, and
given the power to hear and make decisions in certain kinds of legal
matters.)For
information on the election of Superior Court judicial officers, see the
Judicial Election Fact Sheet.
Temporary
("pro tem") judges also serve in a judicial capacity at the Superior
Court. A temporary judge is a lawyer who has
volunteered to hear and decide cases.
Judicial Officers by Department/Courthouse
Click on the links below to visit a list of judicial officers at each
courthouse, their department (courtroom) and department telephone
number.
Temporary Judges Program
The Court's
Temporary Judges Program utilizes qualified and experienced attorneys
who volunteer their time to serve in various divisions of the Court. The
Presiding Judge's letter of
invitation to the Bay Area legal community provides information
about the Court's Temporary Judges' Program, and invites interested
attorneys who have been members of the California State Bar for at least
ten years to download and submit the
Temporary Judges' Application form and
Placement
Questionnaire linked to this website.
Training for Temporary Judges at the Superior Court
The required classes "Judicial Ethics for Temporary Judges" and "Bench
Conduct and Demeanor", as well as substantive classes, are offered
throughout the year by the Superior Court in Santa Clara County as part
of the Temporary Judge Program.
Please see below for Winter
2010 classes:
Traffic Brown
Bag Lunch events!
- Friday February 19th, 12 - 1 pm.
Click for Flyer.
Topics to be covered:
- Fees, Fines, and Minimums
- "Mandatory and Waivable"
- Commercial Driver Matters
- Cell Phone Usage
- Carpool Violations
- Monday, March 8th, 12 - 1 pm.
Click for Flyer.
Topics to be covered:
- Traffic School - Options
- Appeals
- Radar/Lidar
Please contact the Temporary Judge
Administrator by email at
kmccoy@scscourt.org, or by phone at 408-882-2744, to reserve your seats for these classes.
Online courses available on the AOC website: for the courses listed below,
visit the
AOC
Temporary Judge Resource page.
- Judicial Ethics
- Family substantive law
- Small Claims substantive law
- Traffic substantive law
For the public: If you have a complaint about a court-appointed
temporary judge, please
print the complaint form
and send the completed form to Temporary Judge Administrator at the
address on the bottom of the form.
Judicial Officers Speakers Bureau
This program is designed to promote interaction between judicial
officers and the public. The
Speakers Bureau can provide judges and court commissioners to speak at
community events,
meetings, and school functions, and these presentations can be tailored
to fit each organization’s
needs and interests.
For additional information, read the
press release. To
request a speaker, email the Court at
speakersbureau@scscourt.org
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