Hon. George Hernandez (Ret.)
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Former Presiding Judge of the Alameda County Superior Court, Hon. George C. Hernandez (Ret.), has been serving the East Bay legal community for over 40 years. He started his career working with low-income clients in Union City as a community-based lawyer in 1979. After a short time in general practice, he was elected Court Commissioner in 1985 by the judges of the Fremont Newark Union City Municipal Court. In 1989, Judge Hernandez was appointed Judge of the Fremont Newark Union City Municipal Court, where he handled criminal cases until his elevation to the Alameda County Superior Court in 1996.
Since his elevation to the Superior Court, Judge Hernandez has served in every civil assignment, culminating in Complex Litigation, where he spent the last four years of his judicial career, and where he presided over one hundred civil jury trials to verdict. Additionally, Judge Hernandez served as the Master Calendar judge, presided over a Law and Motion department, sat on the court's Appellate Division, and completed countless bench trials throughout the duration of his time on the Alameda Superior Court.