The Robing Room

Hon. Beth A. R. McGowenJudgeSuperior CourtSanta Clara

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Comment #	Occupation	Rating	Comments	Date & Time	Actions
134901	Criminal Defense Lawyer	View Details	All of my kids are being sexually abused. Judge McGowen knew all the details. The abuse was not being properly addressed in another case, and I complained by email. Judge McGowen was copied on the email. I had a different case in...Read More	01/10/2026 08:10 PM	Contact reviewer
128150	Litigant	No Rating	Beth concealed disqualification of three disqualified crooks ("judges") [Redacted by Ed.] Those disqualified crooks committed massive severe repetitive fraud on court, but were never officially disqualified, and Judicial Council ...Read More	08/10/2024 01:57 PM	Contact reviewer
127533	Other	No Rating	Thanks to this biased, unprofessional, rude,UNETHICAL, sorry excuse for a "judge", my child was placed in the hands of a stranger and taken away from the ONLY family my child has known since birth. I haven't seen my child for 4 ye...Read More	06/28/2024 12:28 AM	Contact reviewer
78823	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	The worst judge you could ever ask for. Biased towards men, rude- disrespectful and ill-equipped in the courtroom. She’s intelligent but a complete power monger and doesn’t take time to evaluate the cases before her. She’s lazy, m...Read More	11/11/2019 11:22 PM	Contact reviewer
75607	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	Her arrogance and incompetence is beyond imagination. She does not follow the law. She does not care about people. She shows no empathy and she destroy families with minor children. Ironically, even she's a woman herself, she bull...Read More	09/05/2019 12:49 PM	Contact reviewer
75508	Other	No Rating	She is the worst judge I've ever had to witness. She didn't read the DV reports that were submitted by my daughter who has been abused for many years. She "assumed" the children were telling the truth even though the abusive fat...Read More	09/03/2019 10:44 AM	Contact reviewer
75392	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	She has a terrible judicial temperament, she is rude to litigants and attorneys, she is unprepared, and unaware of the law. She is one of the worst judges I've appeared before in my 19 years of practice as an attorney in San Fran...Read More	08/30/2019 07:22 PM	Contact reviewer
75179	Litigant	No Rating	"Judge" McGowen is beyond the pale - both as a judge and as a human being. She takes great pleasure in belittling, threatening and intimidating women, especially self-represented litigants. She ignores the law and the facts and wr...Read More	08/26/2019 10:41 PM	Contact reviewer
73434	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	I have spent hours sitting in Family Law Court observing Judge McGowen. She is a bully and an abuser. She ignores the law and the facts. As is the case with so many personality-disordered individuals, her tactics are actually u...Read More	07/29/2019 10:57 PM	Contact reviewer
73432	Litigant	No Rating	She is absolutely not worthy of being a judge. Does not know basic law, and is prejudiced against women and children.	07/29/2019 10:04 PM	Contact reviewer
70654	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	Judge McGowen is the worst judge I have dealt with in 30 years of practicing law. She does not know the law, does not know the local rules, takes advantage of litigants, is biased, and can't seem to understand that she is a judge...Read More	06/19/2019 02:06 PM	Contact reviewer
70559	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	The most blatantly partisan excuses for a judge that I have ever seen in 11 years of family law. McGowen SCREAMS at self-represented parties on a regular basis, clearly can't control her temper, gets overly hostile if asked for cl...Read More	06/18/2019 11:59 AM	Contact reviewer
57889	Court Staff	No Rating	She is biased, temperamental, nonprofessional, acting like a spoiled brat in court while acting as a judge to make the most important decisions for families and young children. I have seen her acting like the abuser's attorney, sc...Read More	07/17/2018 11:45 AM	Contact reviewer
52383	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	Political?? Client and I from slightly out of town. Client was worried about the obvious coziness between opposing counsel -- very local --and judge. I assured him that there was nothing to worry about. Then we started trial. ...Read More	10/27/2017 01:07 PM	Contact reviewer
50529	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	As a family law Judge, without question one of the top three worst I have seen. Doesn't know the facts and doesn't care that she doesn't know the facts. Arrogant and lacks the integrity to be curious about the facts because it w...Read More	07/10/2017 03:41 PM	Contact reviewer