Santa Barbara County Superior Court | |
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34°25′26″N119°42′08″W / 34.4240°N 119.7021°W | |
Established | 1850 |
Jurisdiction | Santa Barbara County, California |
Location |
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Coordinates | 34°25′26″N119°42′08″W / 34.4240°N 119.7021°W |
Appeals to | California Court of Appeal for the Second District, Division Six |
Website | sbcourts |
Presiding Judge | |
Currently | Hon. Michael Carrozzo [1] |
Assistant Presiding Judge | |
Currently | Hon. Pauline Maxwell [1] |
Court Executive Officer | |
Currently | Darrel E. Parker [1] |
The Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, also known as the Santa Barbara County Superior Court or Santa Barbara Superior Court, is the California superior court with jurisdiction over Santa Barbara County.
Santa Barbara County was one of the original counties formed in 1850 when California was admitted as a state.
The first County Judge was Joaquin Carrillo, and the Second Judicial District was headed by Judge Henry A. Teffts; Judge Teffts drowned while attempting to land at Port Harford, and he was succeeded by Judge Carrillo, who held the position until 1866. [2] : 79–80, 82 In the early history of the county, court was held at Egerea House; records show that Thomas Robbins was paid $447 for six months of rent in 1851 and that later, "the house of Fabrigat was rented for a Court House" in 1852. [2] : 83, 89–90 [3]
A neo-Gothic courthouse and Italianate Hall of Records were built between 1875 and 1888; those buildings were badly damaged by the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake and were demolished. [4] : 16
The current Santa Barbara County Courthouse was completed and dedicated in 1929 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, designed by William Mooser III, on the site where the 1872 courthouse had once stood. [5] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, [4] and named a California Historical Landmark in 2003 as No. 1037. The county courthouse was credited as the genesis and inspiration for the restyling of the entire city of Santa Barbara, which "was once the average American Victorian town, with little distinctiveness." [4] : 17 Mooser, who had just returned from a 17-year stay in Spain, moved to Santa Barbara in 1926 to direct the building of the new courthouse. [4] : 18
In addition to the main courthouse campus in the county seat, Santa Barbara, satellite courts operate in Santa Maria, the county's largest city, and Lompoc. Another satellite court operated in Solvang, but most cases have now been consolidated to Lompoc, with Solvang currently serving only traffic court cases twice a month. [6]
State Route 246 is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs from Lompoc east to Solvang and Santa Ynez, cutting through the Santa Ynez Valley and the Santa Barbara Wine Country. Its western terminus is at the western city limits of Lompoc, and its eastern terminus is at State Route 154 near Santa Ynez.
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The Santa Barbara County Courthouse (Courthouse) is a well-known example of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture and is located in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California. Started in 1926 and completed in 1929, the Courthouse originally served as Santa Barbara County’s (County) superior courthouse, jail, and administrative office. The Courthouse was included on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, was made a City of Santa Barbara Historic Landmark in 1982, a California Historical Landmark in 2004, and a National Historic Landmark in 2005. Over the years, most County administrative offices were relocated to other County buildings. The current Courthouse houses six County Superior Court rooms, the Mural Room, the County Hall of Records, the County Public Defender's Office, offices of the County General Services Department, and the McMahon Law Library. The Courthouse is open to the public and is a popular site for community gatherings and weddings. Architect Charles Willard Moore called it the "grandest Spanish Colonial Revival structure ever built," and the prime example of Santa Barbara's adoption of Spanish Colonial as its civic style.
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