County judicial office
2026 primary resultSan Diego County Superior Court Judge, Office 11
Current officeholder
Leah M. Boucek
San Diego County voters elected Judge Leah M. Boucek to a full term in the June 2026 primary. A subsequent interim appointment allowed her to begin serving before that elected term starts.
- Court
- Superior Court of California, County of San Diego
- Electorate
- San Diego County voters
- Court location
- Courthouses throughout San Diego County
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The election was countywide. Office 11 identifies this position on the 2026 ballot and should not be read as Boucek's courtroom department.
Office overview
What voters are deciding
The office, electorate, and court jurisdiction are separate from the record of the person currently holding the seat.
Next scheduled vote
Leah M. Boucek elected in the June primary
Nonpartisan candidate election
A candidate receiving a majority in the primary is elected. Boucek received 521,043 votes and won the office at the primary.
- Full term
- 6 years
- Official note
- Boucek was the only certified candidate and received 100 percent of the certified vote. The elected term begins January 4, 2027. Office 11 is an election-cycle identifier, not a permanent courtroom number.
Current officeholder
Leah M. Boucek
Judge Boucek has served on the San Diego County Superior Court since July 2026. The court's current assignment directory places her in Department 704, a Family Law Independent Calendar department at the Central Courthouse. She previously served the court as a commissioner, Family Law Facilitator, and staff attorney, and she has taught family law at the University of San Diego School of Law.
- Current assignment
- Family Law Independent Calendar, Department 704
- Superior Court judge
- Serving since July 6, 2026
- Prior court service
- Commissioner, Family Law Facilitator, and staff attorney
- Education
- Point Loma Nazarene College; California Western School of Law
- Appointed by
- Gavin NewsomGovernor of California, 2026View appointment source ↗
General jurisdiction
Types of matters this court hears
These categories describe the court's published Family Law Independent Calendar assignment and general family-law jurisdiction. They do not identify the private details of current cases or imply an individualized workload count.
Divorce and legal separation
Handles dissolution, separation, property division, support, and related family-law requests.
Child custody and visitation
Handles custody, parenting-time, and related requests in assigned family-law matters.
Parentage and support
Handles parentage, child support, spousal support, and related proceedings within the department's calendar.
Domestic violence matters
Handles assigned domestic violence restraining-order proceedings and related family-law issues.
Court colleagues
Other members of this court
Superior Court judges generally preside individually. These selected Family Law Division colleagues are shown to help readers move among judges working in the same court as pages are completed.
Judge, Family Law Independent Calendar
Rebecca F. Zipp
Department 701Profile not published yetPage plannedJudge, Family Law Long Cause
Christopher S. Morris
Department 702Profile not published yetPage plannedJudge, Family Law Independent Calendar
Rebecca G. Church
Department 703Profile not published yetPage plannedJudge, Family Law Long Cause
Sharon L. Kalemkiarian
Department 801Profile not published yetPage plannedRoster reviewed · San Diego County Superior Court department assignments ↗
Public office record
Selected public record
Family-law files can contain confidential, sealed, or remotely restricted material, and the public record does not support a representative case-history sample for Judge Boucek. These three dated records document a federal action involving her official acts, her election, and her interim appointment. They are not a rating or a list of current cases.
Bowman v. Boucek
Named defendant in a federal action challenging official acts performed as a court commissioner
A federal district court declined to intervene in a pending state family-law matter and dismissed the plaintiff's claims. The order did not make a finding of judicial misconduct.
ResultAction dismissed with prejudice under Younger abstention
Read the federal order ↗2026 primary election
Unopposed judicial candidate
The San Diego County Registrar of Voters certified 521,043 votes for Boucek, electing her to the office at the primary.
ResultElected with 100 percent of the vote
Read the certified result ↗Interim appointment to the San Diego County Superior Court
Appointed judicial officeholder
Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Boucek effective July 6, allowing her to assume the judicial position before the elected term begins in January 2027.
ResultAppointed to fill the vacancy created by Judge Earl Maas's retirement
Read the appointment record ↗Public court records
Calendar, dockets, and opinions
The court lists Judge Boucek in Department 704, a Family Law Independent Calendar department. Public calendars and case-search tools may show scheduled matters, but family-law access is restricted for some records. This page does not create an active-case feed or list cases a judge is currently working on.
San Diego five-day court calendar
View the court's public five-day calendar by location, department, case type, and hearing date.
View court calendars ↗San Diego online case search
Find available civil, criminal, family, mental-health, and probate case information by party or case number, subject to access limits.
Search case records ↗Department 704 hearing procedures
Read the official procedures for trials and evidentiary hearings assigned to Judge Boucek's family-law department.
Read department procedures ↗Public accountability
Judicial discipline
Public accountability records from California’s Commission on Judicial Performance.
Public decisions foundNo public discipline decision located
Search: Leah Boucek, all court levels · reviewed
The CJP public decisions database returned 0 records for this exact-name search across all court levels.
Important limit: The database covers public judicial disciplinary cases since 1960. Matters without public charges or public discipline remain confidential, so a zero-result search should not be read more broadly.
News and Press Releases
Updates involving this office
Read reviewed reporting, a professional association evaluation, and the official appointment announcement involving this judicial office and its current officeholder. Follow each story to its source.
Official appointment announcement
Governor Newsom announces San Diego County judicial appointment
The official announcement names Gavin Newsom as the appointing officeholder and summarizes Boucek's career, education, and July 2026 start date.
Professional association announcement
County bar association issues 2026 judicial candidate evaluations
The association rated Boucek exceptionally qualified for Office 11 and explained that its evaluation is not an endorsement or a comparison among candidates.
Independent judicial profile
Family court commissioner Leah Boucek discusses self-represented litigants
The profile covers Boucek's experience in private practice and the court's Family Law Facilitator office, and her approach to self-represented litigants in family court.
About independent coverage: These articles were selected by Paper Trail Politics to document reporting connected to the officeholder's public record.
Methodology and limits
Data coverage and sources
Coverage is assessed against the records expected for this judicial office page and is updated as new public information is verified.
Current assessmentFocused coverage
This page connects the current officeholder, certified 2026 election result, selected public records, court-wide filing statistics, public access tools, discipline search, and reviewed coverage.
- Public record
- Three dated public records involving the officeholder, with family-law privacy and remote-access limits stated; not a rating or complete case history.
- Statistics
- Court- or division-wide context only; not an individualized workload measure.
- Discipline
- Exact-name public-decision search; confidential complaints or proceedings are not visible.
This is a focused voter reading list, not a complete case history, ideology score, individualized workload measure, or representation of confidential discipline matters.
Sources used on this page8 source organizations · 19 records
Office of Governor Gavin Newsom
Orange County Registrar of Voters
1 record from this source is used on the page.
Commission on Judicial Performance
2 records from this source are used on the page.
Exact-name public decision search: Leah Boucek, all court levelshttps://cjp.ca.gov/discipline-decisions-database-results/?wpv_view_count=106760&wpv-wpcf-last_name=Boucek&wpv-wpcf-first_name=Leah&wpv-wpcf-discipline=&wpv-wpcf-misconduct_type=&wpv-wpcf-county_appellate_district=&wpv-wpcf-court_level=&wpv-wpcf-decision_date_min=&wpv-wpcf-decision_date_min-format=m%2Fd%2FY&wpv-wpcf-decision_date_max=&wpv-wpcf-decision_date_max-format=m%2Fd%2FY&wpv_filter_submit=SubmitCJP discipline and decision search: Official database and confidentiality explanationhttps://cjp.ca.gov/discipline_and_decision_search/
San Diego County Superior Court
9 records from this source are used on the page.
San Diego County Superior Court department assignments: Current court colleague rosterhttps://www.sandiego.courts.ca.gov/portal/about/depts_ccn.htmlSan Diego five-day court calendar: View the court's public five-day calendar by location, department, case type, and hearing date.https://www.sdcourt.ca.gov/sdcourt/onlineservices/5-daycalendarSan Diego online case search: Find available civil, criminal, family, mental-health, and probate case information by party or case number, subject to access limits.https://sdcourt.ca.gov/sdcourt/generalinformation/courtrecords2/onlinecasesearchDepartment 704 hearing procedures: Read the official procedures for trials and evidentiary hearings assigned to Judge Boucek's family-law department.https://www.sdcourt.ca.gov/sites/default/files/sdcourt/generalinformation/localrulesofcourt/rocdepartmentrules/hearing_orders_for_department_704.pdfDepartment 704: Current court assignment identifying Boucek as judge in a Family Law Independent Calendar departmenthttps://www.sandiego.courts.ca.gov/portal/about/depts/sd704.htmlSan Diego County candidate list: Official candidate list identifying Boucek as the sole candidate for Office 11https://www.sdvote.com/content/dam/rov/en/election/june-2-2026-statewide-direct-primary/candidate-list/candidate-list.pdfSan Diego County official ballot: Official ballot identifying Boucek's ballot designation as Superior Court Commissionerhttps://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/2026-05/sd-104-508-eng.pdfAccessing Court Records: Official explanation of public case files, online access, fees, and limitshttps://www.sdcourt.ca.gov/sdcourt/generalinformation/accesscourtrecordsFamily and Children services: Official overview of San Diego County family-law matters and public serviceshttps://www.sdcourt.ca.gov/sdcourt/familyandchildren2
Judicial Council of California
3 records from this source are used on the page.
Judicial Council 2026 Court Statistics Report, tables 4a, 7a, and 11a: San Diego County Superior Court, fiscal year 2024-25https://courts.ca.gov/system/files/file/csr_2026.pdfJudicial Council 2025 Court Statistics Report, tables 4a, 7a, and 11a: San Diego County Superior Court, fiscal year 2023-24https://courts.ca.gov/system/files/file/final_csr_2025.pdfJudicial Council 2024 Court Statistics Report, tables 4a, 7a, and 11a: San Diego County Superior Court, fiscal year 2022-23https://courts.ca.gov/sites/default/files/courts/default/2024-12/2024-court-statistics-report.pdf
Justia
1 record from this source is used on the page.
San Diego County Bar Association via PRWeb
1 record from this source is used on the page.
Daily Journal
1 record from this source is used on the page.
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