Riverside County (Riverside)
Career Highlights: Appointed Presiding Judge, Riverside County, January 2019, Appointed Assistant Presiding Judge, January 2017, Appointed Superior Court Judge by Governor Jerry Brown, December 2011, appointed commissioner 2008, Solo Practitioner, Law Office of John Vineyard 2005, Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP 1998, Associate/Partner Dye Thomas Luebs & Mort 1998(merged with Burke Williams & Sorensen 1998).
Law School: The University of California Davis School of Law, 1989
Career Highlights: Appointed Presiding Judge, Riverside County, January 2019, Appointed Assistant Presiding Judge, January 2017, Appointed Superior Court Judge by Governor Jerry Brown, December 2011, appointed commissioner 2008, Solo Practitioner, Law Office of John Vineyard 2005, Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP 1998, Associate/Partner Dye Thomas Luebs & Mort 1998(merged with Burke Williams & Sorensen 1998).
Law School: The University of California Davis School of Law, 1989
A surging population has strained court resources in Riverside County. But John Vineyard, the new presiding judge of the superior court, vows to make justice accessible to all residents of the Inland Empire.
“We have developed strategies, we have efficiencies, we have heavier workloads but we get the work done,” Vineyard said in his new office in Riverside’s Historic Courthouse. He was elected by fellow judges in June an... (continued)
