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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James C. McDermott | Judge | Yolo County | 14 | 1963–1981 | — | |
| Denise McLaughlin-Bennett | Judge | calsuperct | 14 | 2014–2026 | 25% of 12 | |
| Mecomb | Justice, Court of Appeal | Supreme Court | 14 | 1941–1969 | — | |
| Stephen L. Mock | Judge | Yolo County | 14 | 1993–2020 | 0% of 13 | |
| Alejandro Morales | A | Judge | San Diego County | 14 | 2025–2026 | 25% of 12 |
| J. F. Moroney | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 1950–1961 | 21% of 14 | |
| Willis I. Morrison | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 1916–1922 | — | |
| Tamara L. Mosbarger | Judge | Butte County | 14 | 2016–2026 | 73% of 11 | |
| F. J. Murasky | Judge | City and County of San Francisco | 14 | 1903–1924 | 25% of 12 | |
| Thomas C. Murphy | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 1973–1997 | 40% of 10 | |
| Patricia Nieto | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 2018–2025 | 9% of 11 | |
| Patricia D. Nieto | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 2020–2026 | 29% of 14 | |
| Cary H. Nishimoto | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 1995–2026 | 21% of 14 | |
| Marco D. Nunez | C- | Judge | Imperial County | 14 | 2020–2026 | 15% of 13 |
| Margaret L. Oldendorf | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 2014–2025 | 14% of 14 | |
| Steff Padilla | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 2013–2023 | 27% of 11 | |
| Frank S. Pierson | Judge | Merced County | 14 | 1971–1994 | 31% of 13 | |
| Barry L. Plotkin | A++ | Judge | San Bernardino County | 14 | 1993–2020 | 8% of 13 |
| Allan J. Preckel | C-- | Judge | San Diego County | 14 | 1991–2014 | 14% of 14 |
| Pringle | Justice, Court of Appeal | Supreme Court | 14 | 1899–1899 | — | |
| Linda B. Quinn | F | Judge | San Diego County | 14 | 1993–2014 | 54% of 13 |
| Orlando H. Rhodes | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 1939–1970 | 7% of 14 | |
| Robert | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 14 | 1953–1960 | — | |
| Morton Rochman | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 2013–2022 | 36% of 14 | |
| Edward M. Ross | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 1983–2023 | 36% of 11 | |
| Cesar C. Sarmiento | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 1996–2015 | 36% of 14 | |
| Richard Schauer | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 1967–1973 | 8% of 12 | |
| A. A. Scott | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 1941–1967 | 50% of 14 | |
| M. Bruce Smith | Judge | Fresno County | 14 | 2007–2017 | 21% of 14 | |
| J. Kelly Steele | Judge | Kern County | 14 | 1963–1980 | 46% of 13 | |
| Peter G. Stone | Judge | Santa Clara County | 14 | 1981–1998 | 18% of 11 | |
| Richard K. Sueyoshi | Judge | Sacramento County | 14 | 2015–2025 | 29% of 14 | |
| Tunheim | Justice, Court of Appeal | ca9 | 14 | 2010–2015 | — | |
| Beach Vasey | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 1955–1970 | 36% of 14 | |
| Yvette Verastegui | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 2020–2026 | 31% of 13 | |
| John Vineyard | F-- | Judge | Riverside County | 14 | 2013–2020 | 36% of 14 |
| W. S. Wells | Judge | Alameda County | 14 | 1906–1917 | — | |
| Willard | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 14 | 1985–1993 | — | |
| David A. Workman | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 1987–2008 | — | |
| Christopher W. Yeager | B | Judge | Imperial County | 14 | 2005–2016 | 18% of 11 |
| Brian C. Yep | Judge | Los Angeles County | 14 | 2013–2026 | 23% of 13 | |
| Allyn | Justice, Court of Appeal | Court of Appeal | 13 | 1935–1935 | — | |
| Johnnetta E. Anderson | A++ | Judge | Riverside County | 13 | 2020–2025 | 38% of 13 |
| Debra Archuleta | Judge | Los Angeles County | 13 | 2021–2026 | — | |
| Antonio Barreto, Jr. | Judge | Los Angeles County | 13 | 2006–2020 | 42% of 12 | |
| Been | Justice, Court of Appeal | Supreme Court | 13 | 1861–1887 | — | |
| Block | Justice, Court of Appeal | ca9 | 13 | 2010–2018 | — | |
| Boss | A- | Justice, Court of Appeal | Supreme Court | 13 | 1880–1957 | — |
| William L. Bradshaw | Judge | Kern County | 13 | 1942–1964 | 31% of 13 | |
| William H. Brailsford | Judge | Alameda County | 13 | 1968–1977 | 30% of 10 |