Victor A. RodriguezIncumbent

Candidate for Court of Appeal Justice, California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division 3, Seat 4

Victor A. Rodriguez is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Three. He earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California. He earned an M.A. from California State University, Long Beach. He earned a J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law. He began his legal career as a Skadden Fellow. He worked at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund from 2003 to 2005. He then clerked for Judge Consuelo B. Marshall. Marshall served on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Rodriguez clerked from 2005 to 2006. He spent over a decade at the Supreme Court of California. He was a judicial staff attorney for Justices Carlos R. Moreno, Goodwin H. Liu, and Carol A. Corrigan, from 2006 to 2015. He was an attorney on the court's Criminal Central Staff from 2012 to 2013. He was supervising staff attorney for Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuellar from 2015 to 2018. He became a judge of the Alameda County Superior Court in 2018. He presided over a civil domestic violence restraining order department. He handled elder abuse and gun violence restraining order matters. He chaired the court's Family Violence Council and Access Committee. Governor Gavin Newsom nominated him to the Court of Appeal in September 2021. The Commission on Judicial Appointments confirmed him on October 13, 2021. Voters retained him in November 2022. He faces a nonpartisan yes-or-no retention vote, with no opponent, on the November 3, 2026 ballot, for a 12-year term.

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