Riverside County · Statewide General Election
Judge of the Superior Court, Office No. 10 — Riverside County
Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.
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On the ballot
- Michelle Paradise
- Andrea Garcia
A countywide seat on the Riverside County Superior Court, the state trial court (6-year term).
Michelle Paradise led the June 2 primary with 44.0% and Andrea Garcia took 38.8%; neither cleared a majority, so the two meet again on November 3. This is a nonpartisan countywide seat.
A Superior Court judge serves a six-year term on California's trial court — the court where criminal cases, family law, probate, small claims and most civil disputes are actually decided. One judge's rulings affect thousands of people a year, and judicial elections draw far less attention than the stakes warrant. Judges may be reappointed or re-elected for decades, so a six-year term is often the start of a much longer tenure.
We could not find substantive coverage of either candidate, and no bar association evaluation for this race appears in the sources we track. That is worth knowing plainly: this is a six-year judicial appointment and the published record available to us describes only the primary result. Judicial ethics also limit what candidates may say about how they would rule, so some of this silence is structural rather than a choice either made.
Michelle Paradise
Nonpartisan, who led the June primary with 44.0% of the vote. No campaign-finance data, bar evaluation or biographical coverage for this race is available in the sources we track.
Strengths
She led the June field by five points.
Trade-offs
No published record of her legal background is available to us, and no bar evaluation.
Keep in mind
Coverage surfaced no detail about her at all. That gap applies equally to her opponent and reflects what was available to us on 2026-08-10, not a comment on either candidacy.
Andrea Garcia
Nonpartisan, who advanced with 38.8% of the June vote. No campaign-finance data, bar evaluation or biographical coverage for this race is available in the sources we track.
Strengths
She held the leading candidate under a majority and forced a November runoff.
Trade-offs
No published record of her legal background is available to us, and no bar evaluation.
Keep in mind
Coverage surfaced no detail about her at all. That gap applies equally to her opponent and reflects what was available to us on 2026-08-10, not a comment on either candidacy.
June 2 primary — how they advanced
Source review: Strong (86/100) · 2 cited sources
Official records anchor this contest, with a narrow source base.
- voteinfo.net (opens in a new tab)Riverside County elections office — certified June 2, 2026 primary results
- ballotpedia.org (opens in a new tab)Ballotpedia — June 2026 California primary
Last updated July 30, 2026.