Judges and Judiciary
Sep. 25, 2026
Election 2026: Longest-serving 1st District justice seeks new 12-year term
Justice Mark B. Simons, the 1st District's longest-serving member, seeks a new 12-year term after recent rulings show his focus on statutory text cutting across parties and outcomes.
Justice Mark B. Simons has said courts work best when they respect the other two branches of government, testing a law against the constitution and reading it as lawmakers intended rather than deciding they could have written it better.
The 1st District Court of Appeal's longest-serving justice, who is seeking a new 12-year term on the Nov. 3 ballot, has applied that approach in opinions to let Sonoma County's civilian watchdog subpoena sheriff's deputies, uphold an o...
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