Hon. Laurie M. Earl To Receive Judicial Council Distinguished Service Award

Judge Laurie Earl Named as Recipient of Ronald M. George Award for Judicial Excellence

Judge Laurie M. Earl was named the 2013 winner of the
Ronald M. George Award for Judicial Excellence.

Sacramento County Superior Court Presiding Judge Laurie Earl has been named as one of six winners in the 2013 Judicial Branch of California Awards. Earl was selected to receive the Ronald M. George Award for Judicial Excellence. The award honors members of the judiciary for their extraordinary dedication to the highest principles of the administration of justice. The award was previously called the Jurist of the Year Award. Earl will receive the award later this year at a special ceremony in San Francisco. Past winners include former Sacramento County Superior Court judge and 3rd District Court of Appeal Justice Arthur Scotland, and current Supreme Court Associate Justices Carol Corrigan and Ming Chin.  

According to the Judicial Council press release about the award:

Presiding Judge Laurie Earl, Superior Court of Sacramento County, chair of the Trial Court Presiding Judges Advisory Committee, and co-chair of the Trial Court Budget Advisory Committee, was selected for her visionary and collaborative leadership and dedication in the groundbreaking effort over the past year to create greater equity in how funds are allocated among the 58 trial courts.

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Family Law and Judges: Hon. Steve White Responds To State Auditor About Family Court Sacramento Audit

Judge Steve White Acknowledges Long Lines at Family Courthouse - To State Auditors Office

The counter service wait times and long lines at the William R. Ridgeway Family Courthouse have made national news. Last week, a New York Times article about budget cuts to California courts included a photo of the public counter line at the Sacramento County Family Courthouse. Overlooked by the East Coast reporter was the fact that the long line pictured wasn’t the queue to get service at the public counter. As any court customer may have recognized, the line pictured was the line to get a ticket to be able to continue waiting in the inside public counter bleacher area.

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