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Ursula Jones Dickson
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2025 - Present
2027
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Ursula Jones Dickson is the Alameda County District Attorney in California. She assumed office on February 18, 2025. Her current term ends on January 4, 2027.
Jones Dickson won re-election for judge of the Superior Court of Alameda County in California outright in the primary on June 7, 2022, after the primary and general election were canceled.
Jones Dickson was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown (D) on December 27, 2013, to replace Paul D. Seeman.[1] Dickson was re-elected in 2016. She ran unopposed and did not appear on the ballot.
Education
Dickson received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law.[1]
Career
- 2013-Present: Judge, Superior Court of Alameda County
- 1999-2013: Deputy district attorney, Alameda County[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Municipal elections in Alameda County, California (2022)
Nonpartisan primary election
The primary election was canceled. Ursula Jones Dickson (Nonpartisan) won the election without appearing on the ballot.
2016
California held general elections for local judicial offices on November 8, 2016. There was a primary on June 7, 2016. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was March 31, 2016. A total of 351 seats were up for election. Incumbent Ursula Jones Dickson ran unopposed in the election for Office 13 of the Alameda County Superior Court.
| Alameda County Superior Court Judge, Office #13, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | ||
 Ursula Jones Dickson Incumbent | ||
Selection method
- See also: Nonpartisan election
The 1,535 judges of the California Superior Courts compete in nonpartisan races in even-numbered years. If a candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote in the June primary election, he or she is declared the winner; if no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff between the top two candidates is held during the November general election.[2][3][4][5]
If an incumbent judge is running unopposed in an election, his or her name does not appear on the ballot. The judge is automatically re-elected following the general election.[2]
The chief judge of any given superior court is selected by peer vote of the court's members. He or she serves in that capacity for one or two years, depending on the county.[2]
Qualifications
Candidates are required to have 10 years of experience as a law practitioner or as a judge of a court of record.[2]
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ursula Jones Dickson did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., "Governor Brown appoints two to Alameda County Superior Court," December 27, 2013
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection: California," archived October 2, 2014
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Safeguarding California's judicial election process," August 21, 2011
- ↑ California Elections Code, "Section 8203," accessed May 21, 2014
- ↑ California Elections Code, "Section 8140-8150," accessed May 21, 2014
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