Albert J. Ruffo was an American politician, philanthropist, educator, lawyer, and football coach.
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is a special district responsible for public transit services, congestion management, specific highway improvement projects, and countywide transportation planning for Santa Clara County, California. It is one of the governing parties for the Caltrain commuter rail line that serves the county.
Ronald R. Gonzales is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, who served as the 63rd Mayor of San Jose, California. Gonzales was the first Latino Mayor of San Jose since California became a U.S. state in 1850.
Varian Medical Systems, Inc. v. Delfino, 35 Cal.4th 180 (2005) is a California Supreme Court opinion by then-Associate Justice Janice R. Brown interpreting the state's SLAPP statute. Specifically, the case holds that an appeal from a denial of an anti-SLAPP motion stays all trial court proceedings: "The perfecting of an appeal from the denial of a special motion to strike automatically stays all further trial court proceedings on the merits upon the causes of action affected by the motion...you have a right not to be dragged through the courts because you exercised your constitutional rights."
The Superior Court of California for and in the County of Santa Clara is the state trial court in and for Santa Clara County, California.
The Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority (OSA) is an independent special district in Santa Clara County, California, U.S. A bill signed by Governor Wilson in 1992, SB2027, created the district as the Santa Clara County Open Space Preserve as of February 1, 1993. In 2015, Governor Jerry Brown signed California Senate Bill SB422 to rename the authority with "Valley" instead of "County." The OSA serves areas of the county outside the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District with the exception of Gilroy. The OSA uses $4.2 million per year from a $12-per-parcel property-tax assessment to hire rangers and to open land to the public.
Franklin E. Bondonno is an American lawyer and judge from California. He is currently serving as a California Superior Court Judge for the State of California in Santa Clara County.
Maurice Timothy Dooling Sr. was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Jeremy Don Fogel is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Fogel was appointed by President Bill Clinton. He was a judge for the municipal court and superior court of Santa Clara County, California from 1981 to 1998. He served as Director of the Federal Judicial Center from 2011–2018.
William Austin Ingram was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Robert Francis Peckham was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Ronald McLeod Whyte is a senior United States District judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose, California.
Spencer Mortimer Williams was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is California's 6th most populous county, with a population of 1,945,940 as of the 2020 census
Lucy Haeran Koh is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and is a former nominee to be a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is the first Asian American United States district court judge in the Northern District of California, the first district court judge of Korean descent in the United States, the first female Korean American Article III judge, and the second Korean American federal judge, after Herbert Choy of the Ninth Circuit.
Edward John Davila is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and a former judge on the Superior Court of California for Santa Clara County.
Eugene Michael Hyman is an American retired judge, lawyer, and former police officer.
William George Lorigan was an American attorney and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from January 7, 1903, to January 19, 1919.
Sharon Ann Chatman is an American former college basketball coach, a lawyer, and a judge.
Michael Aaron Persky is an American attorney and former judge who sat on the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara bench from 2003 to 2018. He gained attention after his ruling in the case People v. Turner, in which he sentenced Stanford University student Brock Turner to 6 months in prison for the sexual assault and attempted rape of an unconscious 22-year-old woman, Chanel Miller. Despite allegations that race, gender, and class bias influenced his lenient sentencing of Turner, the California Commission on Judicial Performance found no wrongdoing in their investigation of the case. Nonetheless, Persky was recalled by voters on June 5, 2018, during the 2018 California primary elections.
