Courts of California

Courts of California include:

Headquarters of the Supreme Court of California, in San Francisco.

State courts of record of California

• Supreme Court of California[1]
• California Courts of Appeal (6 appellate districts)[2]
• Superior Courts of California (58 courts, one for each county)[3]

State quasi-administrative courts of California

• State Bar Court of California;[4] an administrative court within the judicial branch, subordinate to the California Supreme Court

State administrative courts of California

• California State Personnel Board, hearing appeals from state human resources matters
• California Labor Commissioner's Office
• Office of Administrative Hearings, California Department of General Services[5]
• California Office of Tax Appeals, hearing appeals from the Franchise Tax Board and California Department of Tax and Fee Administration
• California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, hearing appeals from the Employment Development Department
• California Office of Administrative Law, when hearing underground regulation petitions[6]

Federal courts located in California

• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (headquartered in San Francisco, having jurisdiction over the United States District Courts of Alaska, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, the Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, and Washington)
  • United States District Court for the Central District of California[7]
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of California[8]
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of California[9]
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of California[10]

Former federal courts of California

• United States District Court for the District of California (extinct, subdivided)