| Judge | County | Cases | Granted | Denied | Continued | Grant rate |
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| Judge | County | Cases | Granted | Denied | Continued | Grant rate |
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| TIM P. KAM | Solano County | 115 | 38 | 19 | 26 | 33% |
| Kristi Culver Kapetan | Fresno County | 115 | 36 |
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| 31% |
| Eunice Lee | Santa Clara County | 117 | 46 | 17 | 10 | 39% |
| Donna D. Geck | Santa Barbara County | 117 | 39 | 25 | 28 | 33% |
| MICHAEL W. JONES | Placer County | 118 | 41 | 27 | 18 | 35% |
| Patrick McKinney | Alameda County | 119 | 48 | 13 | 36 | 40% |
| Rafael Sivilla-Jones | Santa Clara County | 123 | 72 | 23 | 4 | 59% |
| Mosbarger | Butte County | 123 | 46 | 15 | 29 | 37% |
| Nahal Iravani-Sani | Santa Clara County | 128 | 64 | 25 | 8 | 50% |
| Layne H. Melzer | Orange County | 129 | 47 | 9 | 41 | 36% |
| Jeffrey B. El-Hajj | Santa Clara County | 132 | 65 | 24 | 10 | 49% |
| Unknown | Nevada County | 138 | 16 | 2 | 57 | 12% |
| David J. Hesseltine | Orange County | 139 | 44 | 38 | 32 | 32% |
| Thomas Anderle | Santa Barbara County | 144 | 49 | 22 | 18 | 34% |
| Joseph J. Solga | Napa County | 145 | 63 | 13 | 39 | 43% |
| Trisha J. Hirashima | Placer County | 155 | 59 | 38 | 27 | 38% |
| Julie G. Yap | Sacramento County | 158 | 45 | 41 | 29 | 28% |
| Jamilah A. Jefferson | Alameda County | 162 | 53 | 11 | 21 | 33% |
| Michelle Tong | San Francisco County | 169 | 25 | 26 | 43 | 15% |
| Dennis W. Hayashi | San Francisco County | 169 | 25 | 8 | 25 | 15% |
| John M. True III | San Francisco County | 173 | 53 | 19 | 33 | 31% |
| Benson | Butte County | 184 | 86 | 17 | 28 | 47% |
| Cynthia P. Smith | Napa County | 195 | 65 | 10 | 52 | 33% |
| Matthew A. Siroka | Marin County | 200 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 5% |
| William Abramson | Plumas County | 203 | 5 | 0 | 19 | 2% |
| Ai Mori | San Francisco County | 207 | 34 | 21 | 59 | 16% |
| Not specified | Butte County | 207 | 66 | 2 | 88 | 32% |
| Timothy Staffel | Santa Barbara County | 211 | 41 | 1 | 74 | 19% |
| Richard C. Miadich | Sacramento County | 213 | 66 | 34 | 55 | 31% |
| Unknown | Shasta County | 217 | 46 | 11 | 120 | 21% |
| Bobby P. Luna | San Francisco County | 223 | 39 | 29 | 43 | 17% |
| Unknown | El Dorado County | 231 | 63 | 32 | 28 | 27% |
| Not specified | Shasta County | 242 | 41 | 15 | 124 | 17% |
| Ronald E. Quidachay | San Francisco County | 249 | 57 | 24 | 72 | 23% |
| Harold E. Kahn | San Francisco County | 273 | 93 | 25 | 34 | 34% |
| Stephanie L. Jamieson | Merced County | 292 | 63 | 23 | 27 | 22% |
| Patricia Kelly | Santa Barbara County | 317 | 13 | 8 | 129 | 4% |
| James F. Rigali | Santa Barbara County | 335 | 10 | 1 | 44 | 3% |
| James T. Chou | Marin County | 372 | 91 | 6 | 82 | 24% |
| Colleen Sterne | Santa Barbara County | 407 | 95 | 8 | 46 | 23% |
| Unknown | San Francisco County | 422 | 102 | 72 | 106 | 24% |
| Jed Beebe | Santa Barbara County | 450 | 47 | 0 | 10 | 10% |
| Denise M. Hippach | Santa Barbara County | 525 | 48 | 7 | 260 | 9% |
| Christine Van Aken | San Francisco County | 1,283 | 448 | 203 | 151 | 35% |
| Joseph M. Quinn | San Francisco County | 2,594 | 847 | 511 | 464 | 33% |
| Charles F. Haines | San Francisco County | 2,964 | 469 | 371 | 820 | 16% |