| 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 | 2,891 | 459 | 359 | 792 | 16% |
| Joseph M. Quinn | San Francisco County | 2,592 | 845 |
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| 464 |
| 33% |
| Christine Van Aken | San Francisco County | 1,244 | 430 | 200 | 142 | 35% |
| Denise M. Hippach | Santa Barbara County | 478 | 29 | 7 | 200 | 6% |
| Unknown | San Francisco County | 410 | 100 | 71 | 103 | 24% |
| James T. Chou | Marin County | 332 | 82 | 5 | 57 | 25% |
| Patricia Kelly | Santa Barbara County | 322 | 18 | 10 | 61 | 6% |
| Colleen Sterne | Santa Barbara County | 307 | 78 | 7 | 46 | 25% |
| Jed Beebe | Santa Barbara County | 300 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 8% |
| James F. Rigali | Santa Barbara County | 284 | 11 | 2 | 91 | 4% |
| Ronald E. Quidachay | San Francisco County | 249 | 57 | 24 | 72 | 23% |
| Stephanie L. Jamieson | Merced County | 248 | 56 | 19 | 27 | 23% |
| Unknown | Shasta County | 217 | 46 | 11 | 120 | 21% |
| Timothy Staffel | Santa Barbara County | 212 | 21 | 2 | 25 | 10% |
| William Abramson | Plumas County | 203 | 13 | 1 | 21 | 6% |
| Bobby P. Luna | San Francisco County | 201 | 34 | 27 | 34 | 17% |
| Unknown | El Dorado County | 191 | 53 | 12 | 32 | 28% |
| Richard C. Miadich | Sacramento County | 181 | 53 | 31 | 45 | 29% |
| Ai Mori | San Francisco County | 179 | 29 | 18 | 49 | 16% |
| Not specified | Shasta County | 173 | 33 | 13 | 95 | 19% |
| John M. True III | San Francisco County | 173 | 53 | 19 | 33 | 31% |
| Matthew A. Siroka | Marin County | 172 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 5% |
| Dennis W. Hayashi | San Francisco County | 169 | 25 | 8 | 25 | 15% |
| Benson | Butte County | 163 | 77 | 16 | 27 | 47% |
| Michelle Tong | San Francisco County | 162 | 25 | 24 | 42 | 15% |
| Cynthia P. Smith | Napa County | 162 | 55 | 10 | 44 | 34% |
| Harold E. Kahn | San Francisco County | 156 | 37 | 13 | 28 | 24% |
| Trisha J. Hirashima | Placer County | 140 | 49 | 36 | 26 | 35% |
| Jamilah A. Jefferson | Alameda County | 139 | 49 | 9 | 15 | 35% |
| Unknown | Nevada County | 132 | 12 | 1 | 61 | 9% |
| Julie G. Yap | Sacramento County | 131 | 38 | 32 | 24 | 29% |
| Layne H. Melzer | Orange County | 129 | 47 | 9 | 41 | 36% |
| Nahal Iravani-Sani | Santa Clara County | 128 | 65 | 25 | 8 | 51% |
| David J. Hesseltine | Orange County | 125 | 41 | 36 | 28 | 33% |
| Joseph J. Solga | Napa County | 118 | 54 | 12 | 25 | 46% |
| Rafael Sivilla-Jones | Santa Clara County | 115 | 66 | 21 | 4 | 57% |
| Michael W. Jones | Placer County | 113 | 39 | 26 | 18 | 35% |
| Jeffrey B. El-Hajj | Santa Clara County | 109 | 55 | 19 | 8 | 50% |
| Mosbarger | Butte County | 106 | 36 | 8 | 28 | 34% |
| Samuel K. Feng | San Francisco County | 106 | 26 | 13 | 21 | 25% |
| Kristi Culver Kapetan | Fresno County | 105 | 33 | 27 | 9 | 31% |
| Craig L. Griffin | Orange County | 97 | 40 | 25 | 3 | 41% |
| David A. Hoffer | Orange County | 97 | 36 | 6 | 36 | 37% |
| TIM P. KAM | Solano County | 95 | 29 | 16 | 24 | 31% |
| Eunice Lee | Santa Clara County | 93 | 35 | 13 | 7 | 38% |
| David Foster | Merced County | 93 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 12% |
| Nathan Vu | Orange County | 92 | 34 | 14 | 6 | 37% |
| Sandy N. Leal | Orange County | 92 | 28 | 26 | 15 | 30% |
| Jonathan Fish | Orange County | 92 | 27 | 13 | 18 | 29% |
| Lee L. Gabriel | Orange County | 91 | 47 | 20 | 7 | 52% |