Hon. Timothy R. VolkmannJudgeSuperior CourtSanta Cruz
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| Comment # | Occupation | Rating | Comments | Date & Time | Actions |
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| 133093 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Makes up his mind before trial even starts. Obviously looking for clients in his new role as a JAMS as a mediator | 05/20/2025 11:01 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 126490 | Litigant | No Rating | Timmy retires on May 1, 2024. His last day was March 29th. I am very happy this foul stain on the judiciary is gone. If you were ever in his courtroom, you know he is a child in a man's body. He was unfit to serve on the bench. | 04/26/2024 03:25 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 125606 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | TWO WORDS. UTTERLY DISGRACEFUL. | 02/29/2024 09:35 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 125605 | Other | No Rating | CORRECTION! MY COMMENT IS DIRECTED TO CA53007. CA53033 IS SPOT ON!! HEY CA53007. AS OUTDATED & YET NOVEL AS IT MIGHT BE, I AM STILL KINDA A FAN OF EVIDENCE. SPEAK UP. WHAT'S THE CASE # OF THIS "COMPLEX CASE"? ALLOW US TO SEE HOW...Read More | 02/29/2024 09:32 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 125597 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | The reviews of this judge is a serious subject, as another has already said Santa Cruz Community has a problem it being this judge. The previous review clearly was drafted by this judge himself. The truth usually hurts when it’s ...Read More | 02/29/2024 07:40 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 125509 | Other | No Rating | I have observed this judge presiding over a very complex civil case. I am so impressed with his courtroom demeanor, fairness to both sides, and clarity explaining his every decision during the lengthy trial. I do not know the outc...Read More | 02/27/2024 08:35 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 124946 | Litigant | No Rating | I believe after reading the comments and hearing friends tell me about this judge, that a petition to have him removed permanently from the bench is needed. you only need 35 signatures from registered voters in the area to remove...Read More | 01/29/2024 03:37 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 124558 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | THE WORST, SHOULD BE REMOVED. I HAVE LOOKED OVER THE VAST NUMBER OF CRITICAL REVIEWS HERE, AND THEY ARE ALL CORRECT, THIS JUDGE IS A BLOT ON SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. | 01/02/2024 05:23 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 124154 | Litigant | No Rating | This Judge is just terrible. With undisputable facts he sides with his cronies. Tells you his ruling before he hears the facts. Facts are what his decision should be based. Not with this smug,out of touch Judge. If he is your Judg...Read More | 12/19/2023 10:57 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 124046 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This judge is simply TERRIBLE ! All these reviews say it all about is abuse of a position of authority! My gosh, you would think he would take a long hard look into his actions and make some changes, he must be reading these revie...Read More | 12/11/2023 10:21 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 123002 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Clearly plaintiff oriented. Never reads the papers. Tentative rulings are worthless garbage. He never changes his mind at oral argument. His rulings are so wrong they hurt the soul. Challenge him! | 10/24/2023 11:13 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 120809 | Litigant | No Rating | To the 30-year Santa Cruz attorney, who gave Tim V. an A+, 10-star rating (see comments of August 22, 2023) and who reduced all the people who posted negative comments as disgruntled litigants who lost their case: You have found ...Read More | 09/29/2023 06:21 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 120620 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Sat in the courtroom as this judge amazed almost all present with his bold and bizarre rulings. The only ones present that did not seem alarmed was the bailiff and court staff. The judge should not be in the honorable position he ...Read More | 09/17/2023 05:35 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 120435 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | I just read the prior positive review of this poor excuse for a judge. It’s very sad, very sad that the attorney who wrote the review has demonstrated their compromised ethics. That author is well aware that it’s common knowledge ...Read More | 09/07/2023 10:25 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 120119 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I'm a 30+ year attorney, all of them in Santa Cruz County. Tim Volkmann was an A+ attorney, and Judge Volkmann is an A+ judge (the best of our 16 judges in Santa Cruz - there's other very good judges, but Judge Volkmann is the bes...Read More | 08/22/2023 11:34 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 120050 | Other | No Rating | This man is a bully. Takes advantage of the fact that he is in a position of power to strike down on people who are disabled. He is a terrible judge and I never realized that a judge could tell someone that they had no rights. Goo...Read More | 08/18/2023 07:09 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 119366 | Civil Litigation - Private | No Rating | My gosh this man is scary, I don’t understand how someone like this is able to achieve this position! I spent a couple of afternoons in the courtroom and personally viewed his job performance, scary. | 07/11/2023 09:05 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 117995 | Litigant | No Rating | I was a witness for a plaintiff in this judges court room, and I might add, the plaintiff won the case. BUT I saw firsthand how this terrible individual who calls himself a judge operates. No regard or respect for anyone in the c...Read More | 05/11/2023 04:27 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 113712 | Civil Litigation - Private | No Rating | Santa Cruz you got a big problem, and it’s this man! I can not believe an individual like this is a judge, I sat in this court room for a day working a story on the Judicial in Santa Cruz, and I came away deeply disturbed after wi...Read More | 12/15/2022 11:14 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 112154 | Civil Litigation - Private | No Rating | I was in front of this man as a plaintiff, and I won my case, BUT in the way he handled the defendant it was horrible, it made me want to ask fir a reversal of my case win. No equity or justice with this man. He should not be sitt...Read More | 12/02/2022 09:40 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 111604 | Civil Litigation - Govt. | No Rating | one word describes this Volkmann: TERRIBLE | 11/07/2022 10:05 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 109569 | Litigant | No Rating | I read these reviews before I had my experiences with this Judge, Timothy Volkmann, and was worried but let him carve my opinion of him...now that I have experienced his work ethic...THESE DESCRIPTIONS, THE NEGATIVE ONE'S, ARE 100...Read More | 08/15/2022 05:42 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 109534 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | In the review just before this review it is said so eloquently and precisely and displays how terrible and ill fitted this judge is to be on the bench. This judge has failed to honor his oath of office and is blatant in his abuse ...Read More | 08/13/2022 08:32 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 109334 | Litigant | No Rating | If you are a self-represented litigant, and you are up against a represented party, please file an application to disqualify Tim Volkmann. He will copy & paste everything the represented side advocates in his tentative rulings and...Read More | 08/04/2022 02:50 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 106246 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | Terrible person, should be removed from the bench. This person is so obvious in his bias, it seems his power is run a-mock through a less than balanced mind. It’s amazing to sit in this court room and see the displayed bad behavio...Read More | 07/13/2022 08:09 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 105387 | Other | No Rating | Why pick a jury? Why go to trial?! Why waste the taxpayer's money?! This judge already considered the defendant guilty. He favored the district attorney every time. I would think he would recommend sense, at least, but nope. I wou...Read More | 06/05/2022 12:35 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 105331 | Other | No Rating | Since many laws have changed since my dear friend trail. My friend is able to get a new trail but this horrible judge straight refused. The trail was unfair and my friend deserves a new one to outright just refuse is indecent and ...Read More | 06/03/2022 11:01 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 103502 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | This guy doesn’t actually care about what is actually correct. The fact that he would make a disabled person homeless says a lot about him. Horrible. | 03/17/2022 10:23 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 103501 | Other | No Rating | By far the worst judge in the county. He sided with my landlord and now my disabled sister and I are about to lose our homes. He didn’t look at facts and didn’t care. I have lost all respect for the judicial system thanks to this ...Read More | 03/17/2022 10:19 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 64181 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Something is terribly wrong about this man. Not only creepy, but he reminds me of someone that is not to be trusted. This man reminds one of what we have read about in history books, those connected and less than honest judges fro...Read More | 01/22/2019 09:50 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 57574 | Other | No Rating | This judge is doing well. He should continue to show concern for the defense and mercy for the people. A bit conservative however, respect this guy. | 07/05/2018 06:41 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 52580 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This judge will, with a big smile, and pleasant words, he will hand down judgments that defie reason or law, and its obvious he is motivated by pressures and/or impulses that are driven by his own needs. An observer wonders how he...Read More | 11/08/2017 09:47 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 52366 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This individual should not be in the capacity as a Honorable Judge. He makes his decisions on the bench with seffish self interest as a motivator, I personally witnessed him do a “favor” for a personal friend with a friendly verdi...Read More | 10/26/2017 08:39 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 35690 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | A very nice man, but definitely on the defense end. He will ignore black letter law to assure the defense gets a break, but he will do it very nicely with a smile on his face. | 06/23/2015 12:52 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 23506 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | A bright and shining light in an otherwise dark and dismal landscape. | 09/29/2013 04:00 PM | Contact reviewer |
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