Staff Report

On Friday, Gov. Jerry Brown announced the appointment of 33 superior court judges, including a Benicia woman to the Solano County Superior Court, according to a news release by the governor’s office.
Dora Rios, 47, will be filling the vacancy left by Judge Scott L. Kays, who retired in June. Rios has served as a deputy alternate defender at the Solano County Alternate Public Defender’s Office since 2000, according to the release. She also was an attorney at Oakland criminal justice attorney Robert Beles’ law offices from 1999 to 2000 and a law clerk at the Santa Santa Clara County Public Defender’s Office in 1998. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from the Santa Clara University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Jose State University. Rios is a Democrat.
Per the news release, the other 32 positions consisted of one judge in Alameda County, one in Butte County, one in Contra Costa County, one in Humboldt County, one in Kings County, one in Lake County, one in Lassen County, six in Los Angeles County, one in Monterey County, two in Napa County, two in Orange County, one in Riverside County, three in Sacramento County, two in San Bernardino County, one in San Diego County, one in San Francisco County, one in San Luis Obispo County, one in San Mateo County, two in Santa Clara County, one in Stanislaus County and one in Ventura County. The compensation for each of these positions is $200,042.

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