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Feb. 4, 2026

Judge Richard Miadich, veteran of political wars, takes measured approach on Sacramento bench

Sacramento Judge Richard C. Miadich, a former political law partner and FPPC chair, is applying lessons from decades of campaign battles to a fast-paced law and motion assignment amid a new "civil home courts" experiment.

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Judge Richard Miadich, veteran of political wars, takes measured approach on Sacramento bench

Richard C. Miadich

Sacramento County Superior Court

Career Highlights: Appointed Sacramento County Superior Court judge by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Jan. 19, 2024; chair, California Fair Political Practices Commission, 2019-24; managing partner, partner, associate, Olson Hagel & Fishburn LLP, 2005-18; associate, Walsworth Franklin Bevins & McCall LLP, 2003-05.

Law School: UC Davis School of Law, 2002
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If Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Richard C. Miadich ever faces a contested judicial election, he will have at least one advantage: a depth of political experience rarely seen on the bench.

Miadich spent more than a dozen years with one of the premier political law firms in California: Olson Hagel & Fishburn LLP in Sacramento. Then he led the state's Fair Political Practices Commission for almost five years, evaluating complaints and issuing fines to ca... (continued)

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