Appointed By: Gov. Gavin C. Newsom
The Hon. Ruby S. Neumann is a judge on the Butte County Superior Court in California. She was appointed to the bench by Governor Gavin Newsom on August 7, 2025, filling a vacancy created by the retirement of the Hon. Michael P. Candela.
Prior to her appointment, Neumann sat as a commissioner for the superior courts in Tehama, Glenn, Colusa, and Plumas counties, a position to which she was named in 2023. Before that, she spent time as a deputy district attorney with the Glenn County District Attorney’s Office (2014 to 2023) and an attorney at the Law Offices of Christian Schank & Associates (2013 to 2014), the Law Office of Sterling Harwood & Associates (2013), and the Santa Clara County Family Law Settlement Project (2012 to 2013).
Neumann earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from California State University, Stanislaus, in 2005. She worked as an assistant manager for Gymboree before completing a J.D. at Lincoln Law School of San Jose in 2010. As a law student, she served as a records assistant at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner (2007 to 2008) and Nixon Peabody (2009 to 2010) and a corporate assistant at Fenwick & West (2008 to 2009).
She was licensed to practice in California (2011).
After graduating from law school, Neumann was hired as a file clerk at Robinson & Wood. She worked in that capacity for a few months, eventually leaving to become a liaison at Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman. Then, in 2012, she was hired as an investigator for the Santa Clara County Public Defender’s Office.
Neumann was a resident of Glenn County, California, at the time of her appointment.
She is registered without party preference.
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