About the Court

Mission Statement
Our court exists to preserve and protect rights and to effect fair resolutions of all disputes brought to the court

Vision
To create efficient, transparent, innovative services with trained, well qualified employees to provide stable and consistent access to justice stakeholders.

Superior Court of San Bernardino County is one of 58 trial courts in California serving the largest county in the contiguous United States―reaching south of the San Bernardino Mountains, to the Nevada border and the Colorado River. Larger than the state of Massachusetts and Vermont combined, San Bernardino County is 12% of California’s geographic area.

If you move San Bernardino County to the Bay Area, it covers all, or part of, twenty-three counties.

Encompassing 24 cities and 104 unincorporated communities, the court serves a population of 2,035,210. The court encompasses 13 court facilities throughout the county’s 20,105 square miles.

San Bernardino’s judicial officers hear every case type under state law including civil, probate, mental health, family, juvenile dependency and delinquency, criminal, and traffic. A judge and jury sometimes hear witness testimony and other evidence and decide cases by applying the relevant law to the relevant facts. Cases range from disputes between landlords and tenants to corporate lawsuits; guardianships to court-ordered treatment in a psychiatric hospital; and simple traffic infractions to homicide.

For more information on the court and programs:

• 2021 State of the Court
• 2020 State of the Court
• 2019 State of the Court
• 2018 State of the Court
• 2017 State of the Court

Filing Data from the Previous Fiscal Year

2018-2023 Strategic Plan

• Strategic Plan and Updates

Budget and Finance Information

• 2019-2020 Budget Snapshot
• Resource List
• Link to the Judicial Council on Superior Courts/Appellate Courts/Supreme Courts/JCC