• Supreme Court of California
  Supreme Court of California
  The Supreme Court of California is the highest state court in California. It is headquartered in San Francisco and regularly holds sessions in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Its decisions are binding on all other California state courts.-Composition:...
  
  
  • California Courts of Appeal (6 appellate districts)
    • Superior Courts of California
      Superior Courts of California
      The Superior Courts of California are the superior courts in the U.S. state of California with general jurisdiction to hear and decide any civil or criminal action which is not specially designated to be heard in some other court or before a government agency...
      
       (58 courts, one for each county)

• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...
  
   (headquartered in San Francisco
  San Francisco, California
  San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
  
  , 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
    United States District Court for the Central District of California
    The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...
    
    
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
    United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
    The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California is composed of six divisions.The Bakersfield division has jurisdiction over certain cases in Inyo and Kern counties and on federal lands and National Parks...
    
    
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of California
    United States District Court for the Northern District of California
    The United States District Court for the Northern District of California is the federal United States district court whose jurisdiction comprises following counties of California: Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San...
    
    
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of California
    United States District Court for the Southern District of California
    The United States District Court for the Southern District of California is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties in California: Imperial and San Diego. In terms of filed indictments, it is one of the busiest criminal districts in the United States...
    
    

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

External links

• National Center for State Courts - directory of state court websites.