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Download Hon. Geck ReportThe Hon. Donna D. Geck is a judge for the Santa Barbara County Superior Court in California. She was appointed to the bench by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010.
She is registered decline-to-state.
Judge Geck graduated with her B.A. in journalism from Marquette University in Wisconsin in 1971. She then earned her J.D. from the University of North Dakota Law School in 1976.
After law school, Geck worked briefly as an assistant public defender with the State of Minnesota Board of Public Defense at the Second District Management Office. After a year there, she would enter into private practice, where she would remain until her appointment to the Superior Court in 2010.
During her time in private practice, Geck worked for various law firms in Minnesota before landing at the Santa Barbara law firm of Hager and Dowling in 1995. Her practice centered on civil litigation, which included jury and court trials as well as arbitrations and mediations. She was certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and also served as a settlement master for the Superior Court. Geck was licensed to practice in North Dakota (1976), Minnesota (1976), Wisconsin (1989), and California (1996).
While on the bench, Judge Geck has presided over criminal arraignments as well as a civil calendar.
Her memberships have included the American Board of Trial Advocates, the William L. Gordon Inns of Court, the Santa Barbara Women Lawyers, the California Judges Association, and past-president of the California Coast Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.
Geck received the Deborah Talmage Attorney of the Year Award from the Santa Barbara Women Lawyers in 2011.
She has served as a judge for the Teen Court.
MATTHEW P QUIRK ET AL VS BERL GOLOMB ET AL
Dec 13, 2019 | Judge Donna D. Geck | Santa Barbara County, CA
Nature of Proceedings: Motion: Leave to File First Amended Cross-Complaint Tentative not yet posted, please check again.
...TIFFANY ROCHEL VS SHARON RAHIMI ET AL
Dec 13, 2019 | Judge Donna D. Geck | Santa Barbara County, CA
Nature of Proceedings: Demurrer Tentative not yet posted, please check again.
...ROBERT S. SHUMAKE LIVING TRUST 1994 VS JASON Q. WILSON TRUST DATED OCTOBER 18, 2007, ET AL
Dec 13, 2019 | Judge Donna D. Geck | Santa Barbara County, CA
Nature of Proceedings: Motion: Withdraw as Attorney Tentative not yet posted, please check again.
...CALIFORNIA STATE LANDS COMMISSION VS SIGNAL HILL SERVICE INC ET AL
Dec 13, 2019 | Judge Donna D. Geck | Santa Barbara County, CA
Nature of Proceedings: Demurrer Tentative not yet posted, please check again.
...MIGUEL RAMIREZ VS WILLIAMSON INDUSTRIES INC ET AL
Dec 13, 2019 | Judge Donna D. Geck | Santa Barbara County, CA
Nature of Proceedings: Motion: Leave to File Comlaint In Intervention Tentative not yet posted, please check again.
...JOSEPH BENARON ET AL VS JOHN CARDILINO ET AL
Dec 13, 2019 | Judge Donna D. Geck | Santa Barbara County, CA
Nature of Proceedings: Motion: Strike/Anti-SLAPP Tentative not yet posted, please check again.
...CAROL SHENKEL VS JEFFREY GAUVIN, MD ET AL
Dec 6, 2019 | Judge Donna D. Geck | Santa Barbara County, CA
Nature of Proceedings: Motions to Compel Motion taken off-calendar.
...AMERICAN EXPRESS BANK FSB ET AL VS LAURA GONZALEZ
Dec 6, 2019 | Judge Donna D. Geck | Santa Barbara County, CA
Nature of Proceedings: Motion: Order Vacating Dismissal and Entering Judgment TENTATIVE RULING: The motion is granted. This collection action, originally filed on September 22, 2016, was settled by the parties through a Stipulation for Conditional Entry of Judgment, filed June 29, 2017. In that stipulation...
CAROL SHENKEL VS JEFFREY GAUVIN, MD ET AL
Dec 6, 2019 | Judge Donna D. Geck | Santa Barbara County, CA
Nature of Proceedings: Motions to Compel Tentative Ruling: This is an action for medical malpractice. Defendant Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital served form and special interrogatories, and a demand for production, upon plaintiff on March 30, 2018. Plaintiff died as a result of an unrelated illness in May 20...
JOSEPH BENARON ET AL VS JOHN CARDILINO ET AL
Dec 6, 2019 | Judge Donna D. Geck | Santa Barbara County, CA
Nature of Proceedings: Demurrer and Motion to Strike Tentative not yet posted, please check again.
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