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Get to Know Presiding Judge Ed Weil
It’s an honor to have been selected by my colleagues as Assistant Presiding Judge, and now as Presiding Judge for 2023 and 2024. My colleagues also have selected our incoming Assistant Presiding Judge, Christopher Bowen, who will become Presiding Judge in 2025 and 2026. The last two years have posed many challenges, and we owe...
Read ArticleA Tenure of Challenge & Change
In 2018, when I agreed to serve as Presiding Judge, I had hoped to explore opportunities to improve on our court operations and to make the work processes more efficient and sustainable for court employees, bench officers, and court users. I did not envision I would have to develop and implement various health mandates or...
Read ArticleDiscovery Facilitator Program
On March 23, 2020, Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye issued her first of hundreds of emergency orders on behalf of California trial courts related to the State of California’s COVID-19 shutdown. By April 30, 2022 most of those orders had been rescinded. Despite the return to “normalcy,” the myriad repercussions from the shutdown, delays to trials, discovery,...
Read ArticleMy Journey to the Bench
I decided at the early age of 8 years old, after some “encouragement” from my parents, that I wanted to be an attorney. I’m an advocate by nature and always believed I would be a good attorney because of that. But when I got to college in the 90’s at San Francisco State, I changed...
Read ArticlePHOTOS: Court Volunteer Appreciation Event 2022
On Wednesday November 16, 2022, the Judges and Commissioners of the Superior Court were happy to return to the tradition of hosting a Volunteer Appreciation at the Board of Supervisor’s Chamber in appreciation for all the efforts of the many Court Volunteers! Presiding Judge Rebecca Hardie shared this message: The Contra Costa Superior Court offers...
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