Hon. Colleen K. SterneJudgeSuperior CourtSanta Barbara
1.5
| Comment # | Occupation | Rating | Comments | Date & Time | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 134207 | Other | No Rating | my family is going through her probate court and has been for almost a year it is my observation that she has no idea of what proffesional behavior is. She comes to court unprepared, her vibe is I would rather be anywhere but her...Read More | 10/16/2025 11:44 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 134037 | Other | View Details | This judge should be taken off the bench. Extremely biased against disabled beneficiaries in favor of other Santa Barbara Women’s lawyers and trust attorneys from Mullen & Henzell, Cristi Michelon Vasquez, and Quinn Fiduciary.. Ru...Read More | 09/24/2025 01:10 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 133804 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Having appeared before any number of highly qualified, competent Superior Court judges in Los Angeles County, it has been embarrassingly shocking to witness what in effect is a judicial horror show presided over by an incompetent,...Read More | 08/14/2025 04:09 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 131007 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | As a severely disabled attorney, it is shocking to me that Judge Sterne deliberately has the bailiff lock her courtroom knowing participants will be there on time and expect to get into the courtroom. Her court is not set up in a...Read More | 02/12/2025 01:37 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 129398 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | This judge is bias to an extreme without truly investigating the persons situation. I don't think she has time and I think she is inherently hostile to human beings in general. | 10/29/2024 06:36 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 126717 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | It takes 3-4 months to get a simple hearing date.Your opponents file their opposition 6 court days before the hearing. You file your reply brief one day later which this judge ignores. This is the opposite of justice. The judge...Read More | 05/08/2024 01:17 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 125987 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Sterne is biased and unfair to the point of being entirely unethical. She schedules every matter out by at least 3 months so there is no chance of a speedy trial. Death by waiting. She is so rude and prejudiced as to make...Read More | 03/25/2024 11:37 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 125896 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | The comment below is 100% correct. This is a judge who will cut off a party from putting any object on the record yet allow the opposition to late file their pleadings to one's severe detriment. Very hateful judge. Totally bias...Read More | 03/17/2024 06:14 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 125674 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Hates women. Makes litigants waits 3 months for a hearing on any motion. Cuts female litigants off at the knees and silences them if they try and put anything on the record. So narcissistic and selfish-important. Makes huge le...Read More | 03/04/2024 01:02 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 119829 | Litigant | No Rating | This woman isn’t fit to judge a cattle call. She has obvious bias towards the attorneys who appear regularly before her[Redacted by Ed.] . She conserved my mother, on the word of two individuals who spent under one hour combine...Read More | 08/06/2023 07:10 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 109161 | Litigant | No Rating | Judge Sterne allowed a cousin, a psychopath paralegal represented by the attorneys she works for, to rob me of my inheritance. This psychopath simply walked-in one day and tricked my elderly frail father as he suffered from the ef...Read More | 07/30/2022 02:22 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 76188 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Sterne validated an illegal retaliatory lawsuit - KNOWN TO BE ILLEGAL - with a 6-figure “default judgement” within 2 weeks of the lawsuit being served in her court right in front of her. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE PROVIDE OVERSIGHT TO TH...Read More | 09/16/2019 12:08 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 73745 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Whether she rules in my favor or against me, I always know that she is trying to do the right thing for the people involved in the case. Everyone gets a chance to be heard. She carefully listens and considers the evidence and arg...Read More | 08/05/2019 01:26 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 72844 | Other | No Rating | Judge Sterne is evidently afflicted by a total absence of impartiality, intelligence and with full inability to fairly use the US laws, she should be removed from her pitiful assignment so badly and insufficiently performed | 07/19/2019 12:01 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 69295 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Astonishing level of incompetence, arrogance, insecurity and abject stupidity. Incredibly pompous,engaging in desperate attempts to appear intellectual and intelligent, miserably failing at both. insensitive and caught up in an al...Read More | 05/21/2019 10:10 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 67731 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge is woefully incompetent. Only saving grace is that she is very bland in court and doesn't indulge in crazy screaming fits. | 04/09/2019 03:29 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 66222 | Litigant | No Rating | How do I complain and remove Judge Sterne from my case? I feel helpless with regard to my participation in courtroom procedure with Judge Stern. Her actions are suspicious... since my petitions and request and COMPLAINTS have ...Read More | 03/04/2019 05:43 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 66220 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I would like you to check this judge Sterne of Santa Barbara with regard to organized corruption suspicion. - the way she appoints attorneys such as (Ms BArnes) - the way money disappears from the account during her courtroom p...Read More | 03/04/2019 05:31 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 61215 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Among the worst judges I have ever appeared before. Having had to take over several matters previously handled by other lawyers in our firm, the enjoyment of the drive to Santa Barbara has been ruined not only because of this judg...Read More | 11/02/2018 01:51 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 61183 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Likely the laziest, most incompetent, embarrassingly ill-equipped, disaster of a jurist within the state. When challenged she becomes vindictive, retaliatory and exceedingly full of herself. She insists on referring to herself in ...Read More | 11/01/2018 12:22 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 57581 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | This is one of the best judges I have ever dealt with in over 35 years as an attorney. Extremely thorough. She writes 14-15 page tentatives so even if you lose you know why. I lost the case on MSJ but she was so well-reasoned t...Read More | 07/06/2018 01:07 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 46991 | Other | No Rating | Colleen Sterne's court transcripts are not thorough nor accurate, sometimes there are none. She seems prejudiced and biased right away for the plaintiff whose petitions are totally fallacious with no basis. She doesn't even read t...Read More | 01/01/2017 12:27 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 45492 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | very unimpressive, okay as a settlement judge. | 09/22/2016 06:12 PM | Contact reviewer |
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