Hon. Shirley K WatkinsJudgeSuperior CourtLos Angeles
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| Comment # | Occupation | Rating | Comments | Date & Time | Actions |
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| 134496 | Litigant | View Details | I had the pleasure of coming before Judge Shirley Watkins in a civil matter. Although I am a Plaintiff in the action I am also an attorney with almost 50 years of litigation experience. It is the first time however that I have bee...Read More | 11/15/2025 07:38 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 132517 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | The WORST judge ever. Yells at lawyers. Is as dumb as a rock but thinks she knows it all. Ignores the evidence. Ignores the law. Goes out of her way to screw over any litigant or lawyer she does not like. Will report lawyers...Read More | 05/02/2025 03:42 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 132259 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This is a very industrious judge, who wants to make the right call, and will listen - -really listen-- to a lawyer or a unrepresented litigant. I go back a ways: to LASC before the advent of IC judges, when it had seperate discov...Read More | 04/13/2025 07:45 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 128522 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Shirley Watkins is corrupt she does not rule according to the law She has to be on the take she demeans and makes People feel belittled WATKINS NEEDS TO BE REMOVED | 09/03/2024 07:46 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 127572 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Not competent to be a judge. | 06/30/2024 08:37 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 120540 | Civil Litigation - Private | No Rating | Does not remotely belong on the bench. It's a systemic failure of the government putting her there, and specifically of the Judicial Branch not cleaning house when it has become clear she is incompetent and angry. | 09/13/2023 11:12 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 120250 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Extremely rude and condescending to attorneys. Seems like she wakes up on the wrong side of the bed every morning, I feel really bad for her. | 08/29/2023 10:58 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 116683 | Other | No Rating | Before Watkins became a judge- unfortunately, she was a practicing trial atty. with specializing in medical mal practice. She appeared to be very aggressive both inside and outside the office. She brings this bad attitude to the c...Read More | 03/10/2023 09:37 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 116567 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | An embarrassment to the bench and a reflection of declining standards and morals in this country. They make a scummy, low ability, low level personal injury lawyer a Judge?? | 03/03/2023 01:36 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 105891 | Litigant | No Rating | My name Christopher T. Barone. I wanted to update the situation regarding Shirley's expulsion of my Sister and niece. Watkins was compelled to issue a statement and I appreciate the fact she did because it exposes Shirly for who...Read More | 06/25/2022 10:37 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 105774 | Other | No Rating | Revised: I am not a criminal defense attorney: Mr. Christopher T. Barone is my name. I prefer to provide objective reviews under my real name. Today, transparency is uncommon, and nowhere is tyranny more prevalent than in the cou...Read More | 06/21/2022 07:21 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 103643 | Civil Litigation - Private | No Rating | I have watched these comments for a while it is obvious that there is someone who monitors this website. Anyone who gives her a rating of 10 or anything close to that is a plant. So the criminal defense lawyer is exactly right C...Read More | 03/23/2022 12:50 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 79516 | Litigant | No Rating | Judge Watkins is the rudest, vilest judge I have had the great displeasure to cross paths with. If you get her, immediately PAPER HER OUT. She knows nothing about the law and knows even less, if this is possible, about how to be...Read More | 11/27/2019 11:09 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 79387 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | A fair and reasonable judge that demands the respect she earned and deserves while behind the bench. | 11/23/2019 02:54 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 78879 | Litigant | No Rating | Judge Shirley was an ambulance chasing med mal atty. who was obnoxious and no doubt lost clients due to her "sweetness!!" Yes she does choose favorites due to her meanness and no doubt miserable past. She should be removed from th...Read More | 11/14/2019 12:16 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 78835 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | PAPER HER IMMEDIATELY! The worst judicial temperament of any judge. RUDE, RUDE, RUDE! I've been in her courtroom a number of times and each time have observed her ream at least one lawyer a new one. Not objective and unbiased....Read More | 11/12/2019 03:34 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 77869 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | She doesn't look so good as of late. Something is going on with her health or...So mean to people maybe it's taken a toll on her psyche. | 10/20/2019 03:04 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 75510 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | A gutter judge. Take your case elsewhere if you're looking to have it heard by someone competent and half way decent. | 09/03/2019 11:57 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 75503 | Civil Litigation - Govt. | View Details | worst judge in the world! should go back to law school...or pre-school. Wouldn't surprise me if she ruled that murder was legal based on what i've seen this incompetent nutto do. Truly shocked that this oaf became a judge, I w...Read More | 09/02/2019 09:21 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 75449 | Litigant | No Rating | This judge acts mean because she is very insecure in the courtroom and therefore lashes out due to frustration and the inability to make rational decisions at the moment. She takes pending matters under submission most likely lett...Read More | 09/01/2019 01:28 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 75317 | Litigant | No Rating | A beast! A Misanthrope- hater of mankind. She emits suppressed rage. Possibly going through some sort of hormonal imbalance. Clammy looking features. Incoherent immature rulings that are reckless and incoherent. It's apparent that...Read More | 08/29/2019 01:45 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 75205 | Other | No Rating | Truly an abuse of power. She is a nightmare of a judge if she is presiding over your case. Openly brags about how powerful she is, describing what she has done in other cases, yet is not at all discerning in her decisions, let alo...Read More | 08/27/2019 01:28 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 75105 | Civil Litigation - Private | No Rating | To state that Watkins has a great listening skills and is upholding are laws is nothing but a joke, or may be she has asked someone to post it for her after the enormous amount of true facts that expose her bias, prejudice, lack o...Read More | 08/25/2019 11:17 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 74879 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | Courteous listening skills = get out of here or else....gritting here teeth and sweating face....fails to follow basic law and Constitutional rights. Does not read papers or for that matter if she even (skim if at best) did she ha...Read More | 08/22/2019 01:45 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 74824 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | Comment below mine makes no sense. Sounds like this joker has a blockage in the brain. When there is a no good judge, others need to be made aware and this is the site where the words mean something. If you don't listen now, bewar...Read More | 08/22/2019 12:22 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 74734 | Other | No Rating | From my perspective, Judge Watkins demonstrated courteous listening skills, asked questions wisely, and after review of all facts, I found Judge Watkins made decisions impartially. With her experience, credible education, and tem...Read More | 08/21/2019 11:17 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 74696 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | Grits her teeth and feigns a smile once in awhile. She is frustrated at life and shows this in open court. Very disturbing. Her court will be empty soon because she is a prime candidate for 170.6. Spoke to other lawyers who had ca...Read More | 08/20/2019 01:44 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 74695 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Watkins was a prior medical mal practice atty. who apparently yelled at her clients when they didn't want to settle. Yelled so loud that it could be heard out in the waiting room. So frustrated was this judge that she decided to l...Read More | 08/20/2019 01:41 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 72738 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Imagine a criminal puts on a judge's robe, calls herself Shirley Watkins and presides over your case, would you like that? many of the reviewers call her incompetent, I think she's just mentally deranged with a predeliction towar...Read More | 07/18/2019 10:42 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 72736 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | A brainless, arrogant, mean spirited individual who is unfit to be a judge. Beware: Watkins is an airhead with no scruples who thinks she knows everything, she is thus very dangerous, like a child who has been given a load gun. | 07/18/2019 10:33 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 72411 | Litigant | No Rating | Rude and nasty and when she thinks that she has you on the ropes she "tears and twist" like a rabid alligator. Takes delight in being rude and cruel. Takes glee and joy in making an atty. miserable. She has crossed the line in bei...Read More | 07/12/2019 11:40 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 72331 | Other | No Rating | 170.6 and don't even have 2nd thought. | 07/11/2019 02:20 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 72322 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Of all the hundreds of judges I have been before, she is the worst, the dumbest, the most unprofessional, the most mean spirited piece of junk. Disgrace that this unwholesome rotten person can actually become a judge. She doesn'...Read More | 07/11/2019 12:07 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 71982 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | She is the worst judge ever... stay away from her she will ruin you life. I had all the evidence against my ex yet she decided to convict me of something she has no evidence for | 07/05/2019 06:12 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 71684 | Litigant | No Rating | Only a judge for a short period of time and she already has been removed from Family Law Court due to an overwhelming amount of complaints. Now she finds herself in civil court trials and this too is becoming a troubling position....Read More | 06/29/2019 06:46 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 71376 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | my advice: get away from the dishonorable Watkins as fast as you can. she is just about the dumbest most rotten piece of trash that ever lived. | 06/26/2019 05:35 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 69244 | Other | No Rating | A horrific experience of an extremely bias Judge, that rules based on her intuition, bias, prejudice and jealousy. Does not rule based on the law, the facts and the circumstances of the case. She did not uphold the oath she took...Read More | 05/19/2019 12:47 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 67799 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Unfamiliar with the law and exhibits overwhelming bias. After wrongfully granting a preliminary inj., she denied my request for a PI bond (required by law), then signed a PI order giving property away (also prohibited by law). I ...Read More | 04/11/2019 12:28 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 67283 | Litigant | No Rating | Smartest judge on the bench! | 03/27/2019 01:00 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 66688 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Poor Van Nuys Superior Court...they can't get a break and constantly draw bottom of the barrel judges. Judge Watkins apparently doesn't have either the energy or the ability to write an opinion, even on motions she takes under su...Read More | 03/12/2019 03:49 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 58908 | Other | No Rating | Hate for women. Gives ridiculous parenting advice. Can’t be married or have kids - if she is they must be total train wreck. Nasty to the core. Finds delight in others painful Hard to stomach her face. | 08/21/2018 02:41 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 58907 | Litigant | No Rating | Judge Watkins is an embarrassment to the judicial system. She is blatantly biased, she always has to be right, she believes she is smartest person in the room, she goes by her “suspicions” rather than facts, she twists the truth ...Read More | 08/21/2018 02:22 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 58314 | Court Staff | No Rating | She is far from objective. Hard to believe she has law degree, let alone was appointed a judge. She never acts in the best interest of the minor children. She rules based on her opinion rather than evidence or common sense. No...Read More | 07/31/2018 03:30 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 58208 | Litigant | No Rating | I have been in front of 7 different judges and never experienced anything even close to how this person behaves. She has made up her mind prior to hearing either side. She has some extreme dislike of mothers. She is inappropria...Read More | 07/28/2018 02:46 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 57959 | Litigant | No Rating | Run away screaming! If you see her name on the docket, be sure to request another judge! You only have 10 days to do so. Look at all these reviews! All saying the same exact things! Her Misandrist mentality is so bad, it even exte...Read More | 07/19/2018 04:46 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 57602 | Litigant | No Rating | I heard they are moving her to another assignments, away from Family Court, while in fact, she needs to be removed completely from the bench because she is a terrible Judge. I believe she is insecure, does not rule fairly and ha...Read More | 07/06/2018 08:45 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 55487 | Litigant | No Rating | Unjust, abuses her power and puts children in harms way. This is a matter of a judge that is not abiding by the law and doing what’s in the best interest of the children. In having to attend several court hearings I see it is no...Read More | 04/28/2018 12:32 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 55371 | Litigant | No Rating | I question this judge’s integrity and competency in performing her judicial duties. She is a disgrace to the judicial system and her appointment was an error. Governor Brown, your action to immediately remove her from the bench i...Read More | 04/24/2018 09:23 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 54005 | Litigant | No Rating | I totally agree with other peoples comments. Judge Watkins should NOT be a judge for family court!She is very bias. Her ruling is always inacurate and seems that she has already made up her mind before hearing the case. She has ho...Read More | 02/06/2018 10:29 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 53698 | Other | No Rating | Judge Watkins should NOT be a judge for family court! After reading threat after threat from my ex, history of placing me in the hospital and a recent police report of a break in she refused to look at witness statements, police...Read More | 01/22/2018 11:58 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 52380 | Other | No Rating | This judge has no common sense. A Bias judge who makes decisions based on her own opinions and doesnt take into consideration the facts that are presented to her. Watkins was willing only hear one side of the testimony when in a ...Read More | 10/27/2017 11:20 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 51939 | Other | No Rating | I had her removed from my case after reading these comments. You have only 10 days to file the papers otherwise your stuck with her. Just go to the same room where you filed the original papers and ask them for the forms to have...Read More | 10/01/2017 10:48 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 49921 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Run from this Courtroom and Judge. Terrible demeanor, came from a medical malpractice background and she does not familiarize herself with the law. She never reads the papers before the Court, schedule her cases over multiple he...Read More | 06/04/2017 09:02 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 49364 | Other | No Rating | The worst judge I have even seen. She has no idea what a family even is. Sad state of affairs when this is what a judge should be. | 05/09/2017 12:03 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 49346 | Other | No Rating | She loves to make bulling, no manners to treat person, no profesionalism, short of criteria she does not about enmiedas or anything related, my sugestion she needs to go back home and learn how to better human bein and values. | 05/07/2017 01:01 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 48631 | Other | No Rating | Justice does not exist in her courtroom. She does not follow family law. Her decisions are illogical and scattered. Her temperament is deplorable and not "judicial" in any manner. She's an embarrassment to the court. But what...Read More | 04/04/2017 06:04 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 48604 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Terrible Judge that needs extensive training. Not organized, does not follow the law, refuses to hear arguments, disrespectful to both litigants and their counsels, continues her hearings because of lack of proper scheduling, her...Read More | 04/03/2017 05:06 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 48591 | Other | No Rating | Terrible Judge, must be removed from the bench. Not qualified, intellectually lazy, need additional training, does not pose herself as a Judiciary. | 04/01/2017 09:12 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 48500 | Other | No Rating | Judge Watkins failed to address the facts, the evidence and seemed very biased. She did not have clear knowledge of the case and it probably was due to the fact that she extended the court hearing to a total of 9 times within 16 m...Read More | 03/27/2017 10:29 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 48292 | Litigant | No Rating | How did this woman become a judge?! With all due respect, Gov. Brown, this was a mistake! She was our lawyer at Michels/Watkins for a med mal case when our daughter was killed, blatantly, by a doctor. Watkins was a nightmare lawye...Read More | 03/17/2017 12:29 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 47499 | Other | No Rating | Terrible woman. Judges the people in front of her before listening to the case at hand. She doesn't read the paperwork. She's rude and even calls people names. Is extremely disrespectful and should have never been appointed this p...Read More | 01/31/2017 05:10 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 46795 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | She is a disrespectful Judge. She does not read the papers, she does not follow the law, she is intellectually lazy. She should be removed from the bench, as she is a mens to the judicial system. | 12/16/2016 09:32 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 46587 | Other | No Rating | Obviously, Judge Watkins is not fit to be a judge. Why doesn't everyone file a complaint with the Commission on Judicial Performance. Hopefully, she will be removed and replaced with someone else who is more fit to be a judge. | 12/03/2016 08:31 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 46359 | Other | No Rating | She is unfit for her position. Seems to forget that she is a Judge and no longer a defense attorney. She has already made up her mind before a court proceeding starts. She literally did not let either side present their case: she ...Read More | 11/17/2016 08:37 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 45855 | Litigant | No Rating | Judge Watkins temperament is ill suited for a bench position. She literally yelled at two different litigants in two different cases while I sat in her courtroom. She had no cause to scream at the top of her lungs at anyone. Th...Read More | 10/15/2016 05:48 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 45714 | Litigant | No Rating | Shirley K. Watkins has no business being a judge! Especially in a court where she holds peoples lives and destiny in her hands! She has no sense of impartiality what so ever! She showed such incredible bias for the female perpetra...Read More | 10/06/2016 12:15 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 45315 | Litigant | No Rating | She is very rude. Even if your tone is calm and you are giving her and her courtroom respect, she still uses a bullying temperament to get her point across. She has admitted that she does not read the papers but does not allow for...Read More | 09/12/2016 04:57 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 44220 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Talks down to people. Very rude. Does not follow California Family Code. | 07/12/2016 12:50 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 44219 | Litigant | No Rating | Tends to favor women. Watched in court room as she granted a restraining order to a woman that was bitter that her husband left her and attacked him because he was with another woman. | 07/12/2016 12:44 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 44218 | Litigant | No Rating | Does not follow the law. Instead makes up her own rules based on her values. | 07/12/2016 12:40 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 42732 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I echo the comments of others here. Extremely disrespectful of all. I have heard her screaming at Pro Pers, she was disrespectful towards my client and yelled at the client. Total disregard for the United States, California Const...Read More | 05/14/2016 03:44 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 42730 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I echo the comments of others here. Extremely disrespectful of all. I have heard her screaming at Pro Pers, she was disrespectful towards my client and yelled at the client. Total disregard for the United States, California Const...Read More | 05/14/2016 03:24 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 42554 | Other | No Rating | Very unreasonable and rude Judge. Does not read the papers. Does not hear oral argument. Yet she makes orders, which are clearly based on nothing except her baseless, biased opinion. Do not confuse her with the facts. She makes...Read More | 05/06/2016 10:08 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 40818 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | A generally disrespectful bully, especially to female litigants, and especially younger, female attorneys. No role model at all. | 02/11/2016 01:18 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 39787 | Other | No Rating | Needs intensive training and mentoring. Keeps the Courtroom disorganized and is not respectful to either side, especially to Pro Per individuals. Jumps between motions submitted by ignoring them going to another motion and then co...Read More | 12/24/2015 08:33 PM | Contact reviewer |
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