(Subscription required) San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Stephanie E. Thornton-Harris draws on a career spanning corporate law, criminal defense, and juvenile proceedings to make the courts accessible to litigants while maintaining order and fairness. 

The justices granted a Republican-backed emergency appeal and blocked the use of student IDs as a backup method of identification. The Supreme Court cited a longstanding legal principle that judges shouldn’t change voting rules too close to Election Day.

(Subscription required) Justice Allison Danner, who trains new appellate justices, and whose rulings the state Supreme Court has drawn on or upheld in cases on police searches, murder resentencing and pension bonds, seeks retention Nov. 3.

(Subscription required) 4th District Justice Michael J. Raphael, seeking a 12-year term Nov. 3, wrote a dissent, concurrence and majority opinion whose positions were subsequently upheld by the California Supreme Court.