Judges
Who sits in which San Diego department
Letters are by qwen3.8-27b — it reads the court's own disposition right 70% of the time (how that is measured); pick another model above to compare, on the assumption that the model is right.
10,950 judges · a reversal rate is shown from 10 merits decisions in this corpus
| Name | Grade | Role | Where | Cases | Years | Reversed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carr | A- | Justice, Court of Appeal | Supreme Court | 165 | 1963–2016 | — |
| Monroe | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 165 | 1907–1963 | 29% of 73 | |
| Atsushi W. Tashima | Justice, Court of Appeal | ca9 | 165 | 1985–2017 | — | |
| H. D. Gregory | Judge | Butte County | 164 | 1913–1934 | 26% of 143 | |
| Edwin F. Beach | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 163 | 1974–1986 | — | |
| James R. Lambden | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 162 | 1996–2013 | — | |
| Franklin A. Griffin | Judge | City and County of San Francisco and from an order granting a new trial on the issue of damages | 160 | 1915–1951 | 19% of 149 | |
| George E. Paras | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 159 | 1974–1981 | — | |
| Rodney K. Potter | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 159 | 1974–1983 | — | |
| Joseph B. Campbell | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 158 | 1926–1989 | — | |
| Gerold C. Dunn | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 157 | 1968–1998 | — | |
| Steven A. Mapes | A++ | Judge | San Bernardino County | 157 | 2013–2026 | 33% of 149 |
| Nelson | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 157 | 1853–2017 | — | |
| Stanley N. Barnes | A- | Justice, Court of Appeal | ca9 | 156 | 1956–1979 | — |
| Department | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 156 | 1880–1930 | — | |
| Froehlich | B-- | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 156 | 1981–1997 | — |
| Hollis G. Best | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 155 | 1979–1994 | — | |
| Becky Dugan | F-- | Judge | Riverside County | 155 | 2013–2022 | 23% of 151 |
| Niles | Justice, Court of Appeal | Supreme Court | 155 | 1862–1879 | — | |
| Taggart | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 153 | 1907–1910 | — | |
| D. A. Cashin | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 152 | 1925–1938 | — | |
| Jacqueline H. Nguyen | Justice, Court of Appeal | ca9 | 151 | 2012–2018 | — | |
| Sandra S. Ikuta | Justice, Court of Appeal | ca9 | 150 | 2007–2017 | — | |
| John W. Shenk | Judge | Los Angeles County | 150 | 1914–1925 | 25% of 138 | |
| W. B. Wallace | Judge | Fresno County | 150 | 1899–1928 | 37% of 94 | |
| John M. York | Judge | Los Angeles County | 150 | 1915–1929 | 34% of 133 | |
| Michael G. Bush | Judge | Kern County | 149 | 2007–2026 | 29% of 140 | |
| T. W. Harris | Judge | Alameda County | 149 | 1907–1942 | 35% of 104 | |
| Joseph J. Farris | Justice, Court of Appeal | ca9 | 148 | 1981–2017 | — | |
| J. C. B. Hebbard | Judge | City and County of San Francisco | 148 | 1899–1912 | 41% of 81 | |
| Andrew D. Hurwitz | Justice, Court of Appeal | ca9 | 148 | 2012–2018 | — | |
| Arthur L. Alarcon | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 147 | 1969–2014 | — | |
| Margaret Grignon | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 147 | 1985–2004 | — | |
| Frank H. Dunne | Judge | City and County of San Francisco | 146 | 1900–1939 | 25% of 112 | |
| Nat Agliano | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 145 | 1980–1992 | — | |
| Robert R. Fitzgerald | Justice, Court of Appeal | Supreme Court | 145 | 1891–2006 | — | |
| Langhorne Wilson | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 145 | 2024–2026 | — | |
| Joel R. Wohlfeil | C+ | Judge | San Diego County | 145 | 2013–2026 | 29% of 126 |
| Jonathan S. Fish | Judge | Orange County | 144 | 2013–2026 | 52% of 138 | |
| Eleanor J. Hunter | Judge | Los Angeles County | 143 | 2013–2026 | 24% of 135 | |
| J. P. Wood | Judge | Los Angeles County | 143 | 1912–1928 | 26% of 120 | |
| Mitchell D. Dembin | Magistrate judge | Southern District of California County | 142 | 2019–2023 | — | |
| Gaut | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 141 | 1998–2010 | — | |
| Robert L. Martin | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 141 | 1979–1996 | — | |
| Thomas DeSantos | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 140 | 2020–2026 | — | |
| Robert Gardner | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 140 | 1957–1982 | — | |
| Heydeneeldt | Justice, Court of Appeal | Supreme Court | 140 | 1852–1855 | — | |
| Harry W. Low | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 140 | 1978–1992 | — | |
| Mathes | C | Justice, Court of Appeal | ca9 | 139 | 1946–1965 | — |
| J. V. Coffey | Judge | City and County of San Francisco | 138 | 1899–1923 | 32% of 41 |