| Judge | County | Cases | Granted | Denied | Continued | Grant rate |
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| Judge | County | Cases | Granted | Denied | Continued | Grant rate |
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| Charles F. Haines | San Francisco County | 3,251 | 524 | 406 | 918 | 16% |
| Joseph M. Quinn | San Francisco County | 2,680 | 870 |
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| 473 |
| 32% |
| Christine Van Aken | San Francisco County | 1,477 | 504 | 228 | 177 | 34% |
| Denise M. Hippach | Santa Barbara County | 610 | 51 | 8 | 311 | 8% |
| Colleen Sterne | Santa Barbara County | 598 | 109 | 12 | 58 | 18% |
| James T. Chou | Marin County | 527 | 135 | 8 | 111 | 26% |
| James F. Rigali | Santa Barbara County | 482 | 19 | 2 | 183 | 4% |
| Jed Beebe | Santa Barbara County | 450 | 32 | 2 | 40 | 7% |
| Unknown | San Francisco County | 440 | 108 | 76 | 109 | 25% |
| Harold E. Kahn | San Francisco County | 413 | 144 | 52 | 42 | 35% |
| Stephanie L. Jamieson | Merced County | 404 | 87 | 30 | 45 | 22% |
| Richard C. Miadich | Sacramento County | 359 | 118 | 62 | 87 | 33% |
| Not Specified | Shasta County | 351 | 69 | 22 | 170 | 20% |
| Unknown | El Dorado County | 323 | 52 | 24 | 36 | 16% |
| Patricia Kelly | Santa Barbara County | 294 | 5 | 7 | 74 | 2% |
| Cynthia P. Smith | Napa County | 288 | 97 | 20 | 81 | 34% |
| Ai Mori | San Francisco County | 258 | 52 | 26 | 72 | 20% |
| Matthew A. Siroka | Marin County | 255 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4% |
| Ronald E. Quidachay | San Francisco County | 249 | 57 | 24 | 72 | 23% |
| Bobby P. Luna | San Francisco County | 248 | 45 | 35 | 47 | 18% |
| William Abramson | Plumas County | 242 | 12 | 0 | 28 | 5% |
| Jamilah A. Jefferson | Alameda County | 230 | 84 | 11 | 44 | 37% |
| Patrick McKinney | Alameda County | 224 | 98 | 23 | 64 | 44% |
| Unknown | Shasta County | 217 | 46 | 11 | 120 | 21% |
| Timothy Staffel | Santa Barbara County | 212 | 29 | 0 | 64 | 14% |
| Benson | Butte County | 199 | 94 | 17 | 33 | 47% |
| Layne H. Melzer | Orange County | 195 | 77 | 18 | 53 | 39% |
| Julie G. Yap | Sacramento County | 191 | 52 | 47 | 44 | 27% |
| Trisha J. Hirashima | Placer County | 188 | 67 | 44 | 37 | 36% |
| Nahal Iravani-Sani | Santa Clara County | 188 | 86 | 38 | 13 | 46% |
| Joseph J. Solga | Napa County | 187 | 83 | 16 | 50 | 44% |
| Thomas Anderle | Santa Barbara County | 183 | 61 | 33 | 19 | 33% |
| Not Specified | Butte County | 176 | 61 | 2 | 64 | 35% |
| Michelle Tong | San Francisco County | 174 | 25 | 26 | 47 | 14% |
| David J. Hesseltine | Orange County | 174 | 59 | 42 | 43 | 34% |
| John M. True III | San Francisco County | 173 | 53 | 19 | 33 | 31% |
| Dennis W. Hayashi | San Francisco County | 169 | 25 | 8 | 25 | 15% |
| Jeffrey B. El-Hajj | Santa Clara County | 166 | 81 | 29 | 13 | 49% |
| TIM P. KAM | Solano County | 162 | 58 | 29 | 34 | 36% |
| Kristi Culver Kapetan | Fresno County | 158 | 54 | 41 | 9 | 34% |
| Rafael Sivilla-Jones | Santa Clara County | 155 | 91 | 27 | 7 | 59% |
| Michael W. Jones | Placer County | 152 | 46 | 36 | 27 | 30% |
| Eunice Lee | Santa Clara County | 151 | 61 | 19 | 10 | 40% |
| Mosbarger | Butte County | 150 | 51 | 24 | 31 | 34% |
| Richard Y. Lee | Orange County | 144 | 53 | 35 | 12 | 37% |
| Joseph Ortiz | San Bernardino County | 143 | 63 | 28 | 25 | 44% |
| Donna D. Geck | Santa Barbara County | 143 | 52 | 24 | 31 | 36% |
| David Foster | Merced County | 142 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 9% |
| Sandy N. Leal | Orange County | 141 | 50 | 34 | 28 | 35% |
| Scott A. Steiner | Orange County | 139 | 59 | 24 | 14 | 42% |