Hon. Heather Pinder RodriguezJudgeCircuit CourtOrange
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| Comment # | Occupation | Rating | Comments | Date & Time | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 134883 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Sucks. Has the same energy as an old, sexless scold who was your teacher in elementary school. Talks down to you like you are in kindergarten. Also, clearly doesn't read or understand the motions before her. Also has pointless and...Read More | 01/08/2026 10:45 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 134062 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Poor case management. Difficult if not impossible to get hearing times and rulings. Uneven temperament. Demonstrates clear bias. Talks down and condescending to attorneys and jury. Lack of substantive knowledge of civil liti...Read More | 09/27/2025 01:21 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 131502 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | The comments here certainly seem to accurately reflect this judge's approach to service on the bench. She was more than 20 minutes late to a hearing scheduled for 8:30 AM. She attributed her tardiness to "court business" which s...Read More | 03/17/2025 04:13 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 130146 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Arrogance interferes with her ability to stay unbiased especially with female lawyers on all sides. Strives to be heard wastes too much time in trying to “teach” irrelevant remedial concepts to lawyers. Sadly, her insecurity is si...Read More | 12/27/2024 06:55 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 119882 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I would give here a negative as a prose litigant she failed to look at evidence, Her ties to OPD as well and rulings are unthinkable as well as she wanted to know what the defendants requested. like she cant make a ruling for hers...Read More | 08/09/2023 08:38 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 119587 | Litigant | No Rating | She is extremely biased, unprofessional, and ego-centric. I filed a DV case pro se because my family law attorney recommended it and I couldn't afford to retain them for the DV case. Judge Pinder treated the defendant like gold fr...Read More | 07/21/2023 12:21 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 116645 | Other | No Rating | She didn't even review my case went by someone else recommendations when I had tons of evidence | 03/08/2023 06:53 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 77714 | Other | No Rating | Lazy judge; did not read or prepare for this case. Late for all hearings in the case and once never showed at all. Delayed this case for over a year. Ordered mediation with a demand to fly personally to Florida which costs the...Read More | 10/17/2019 07:21 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 59267 | Other | No Rating | My trail started late 30-40 min, because of the case before mine.I am req by law to have 3hrs.for deliberation.That 3hrs will go into overtime for all court employees including the judge. I was asked to settle before the trial. We...Read More | 09/02/2018 04:38 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 53182 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Very biased and unprofessional judge. Wastes a lot of time; shows no compassion for male clients in Child Support cases. Very unprofessional and bad temperament in her courtroom and showing a very condescending attitude towards th...Read More | 12/18/2017 11:55 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 49136 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Read through your cases before making any judgements, please. You lack in that, announced it loudly in the meeting, and then put a child in the hands of a dangerous woman in a very dangerous situation. I do not think you believe t...Read More | 04/26/2017 05:38 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 43806 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | mediocre judge needs a lot of improvement especially in the area of civility has displayed anger to a litigant in the courtroom | 06/18/2016 09:47 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 43345 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Fair good judge. | 06/06/2016 10:36 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 43344 | Other | No Rating | Fair, Honest judge. Doesn't discriminate against people who made One mistake in their life.... like Other judges Would be Discriminatory. | 06/06/2016 10:32 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 43224 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | very poor temperament unsuited to judge to a legal of any complexity | 06/04/2016 03:06 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 42867 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | not prepared have to explain to her what the motion was about then have the hearing a lot of wasted time | 05/21/2016 02:51 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 42644 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | she is very moody I avoid appearing in front of her if I can terrible judicial temperament has a difficult time handling a complicated matter clearly unprepared others say the same | 05/10/2016 11:11 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 42146 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | terrible on the law awful judge short temper likes to scold parties in civil case she should respect those who appear in court I rate this judge at the low end of those in orange county | 04/20/2016 03:53 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 42060 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | have no confidence in this judge could be the least prepared judge in orange county inconsistent on the bench needs much improvement | 04/16/2016 04:08 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 41674 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | Judge Rodriguez is stellar. I see the crazy old lady who likes to impersonate attorneys has been released from Lakeside again lol. | 03/26/2016 10:42 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 41663 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | took one month to sign an agreed order that should have taken 2 days we could not proceed to mediation until she signed it waste of time | 03/26/2016 09:02 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 41421 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | she appears to be a know it all 99 percent right 100 percent wrong needs to listen more carefully and try to keep her opinion to herself | 03/13/2016 11:10 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 40781 | Other | No Rating | My only experience with Rodriguez is I am waiting for her to sign papers so we can move into the probate process. The papers should have been back 6 weeks ago. This is an uncontested action to appoint personal rep. I have tal...Read More | 02/09/2016 02:53 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 40349 | Litigant | No Rating | Rude to the lawyers. Interrupted the attorneys. Judge not prepared for the hearing. | 01/23/2016 05:04 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 40342 | Other | No Rating | Seems to favor women more so than men in the courtroom.. is anyone else getting this impression or have feedback on her bias as a judge ? | 01/22/2016 01:21 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 40152 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | disinterested lacks judicial courtesy to the litigates and lawyers does not read the file and it shows I rate this judge overall very poor | 01/12/2016 07:38 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 40149 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | She pulls no punches. Calls a spade a spade. Leave your song and dance at the door with this judge. | 01/12/2016 05:35 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 40148 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Judge Heather Pinder Rodriguez is an amazing and dynamic judge that cares about the children in her courtroom. She ruled quickly and was very fair. | 01/12/2016 04:27 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 39712 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | very lazy and disinterested appears to be in a pissed off mood terrible judge | 12/20/2015 11:25 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 38746 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | lazy seems disinterested poor courtroom etiquette never make it as a lawyer | 11/07/2015 07:56 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 37516 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | poor courtroom demeanor has a small anger problem towards litigants and it shows | 09/13/2015 07:14 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 37152 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | terrible demeanor no business being a judge | 08/26/2015 09:34 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 35267 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | has an anger issue needs to pay more attention to the testimony and the evidence being presented a very poor judge | 06/08/2015 08:05 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 34940 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | HAS AN ATTITUDE NEEDS IMPROVEMENT | 05/23/2015 07:02 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 34853 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Unprepared, bad attitude and plays favorites. Clearly not suitable to be a judge....doesn't know the law and it's obvious. | 05/19/2015 04:27 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 27913 | Civil Litigation - Govt. | View Details | Highly Intelligent and Professional | 07/05/2014 04:56 PM | Contact reviewer |
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