VENTURA — The Judges of the Superior Court by an Order signed June 20, 2024, nominated thirty-three (33) Ventura County citizens (see attached list) to the panel from which the members of the 2025-2026 Grand Jury will be drawn.
Exercising an option available under amended statutes, the Judges have named among the thirty-three (33) member panel, six (6) members of the 2024-2025 Grand Jury as “holdovers” to the 2025-2026 Grand Jury. The nineteen-member 2025-2026 Grand Jury will be drawn from this 33-member panel on July 1, 2025, at 3:00 p.m. in Courtroom 22 and eleven (11) persons not drawn from the panel for immediate service will remain alternate jurors to be drawn as replacements should that become necessary during the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
In making judicial nominations to the panel, the court met the statutory requirement for population-proportionate representation of the county’s five supervisorial districts. In addition, the court attempted to apportion the panel on the basis of gender, race, and age to the extent possible from among the applications and nominations received.
The 2025-2026 Grand Jury panel will be summoned to a special session of the Superior Court to be held in Courtroom 22 at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, at which time the names of those nineteen (19) persons who will serve as 2025- 2026 Grand Jurors will be drawn. Presentation to the court of the official report of the 2024-2025 Grand Jury will be made by the outgoing Grand Jury panel.
LEGAL NOTICE
GRAND JURY LIST FOR 2025-2026
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF VENTURA
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, in accordance with the provisions of Penal Code Section 900, of
the persons selected by a majority of the judges of the Ventura Superior Court, by Order dated
June 20, 2025 for service as members of the Grand Jury Panel during fiscal year 2025-2026, or
until a superseding list of grand jurors is furnished as provided by statute and rules of court:
1. Benigno, Reginald Validor
2. Bliss, Arthur C. Jr.
3. Clark, Steven Scott
4. Davidson, Rustle Denis
5. Dettorre, Susan J.
6. Farrell, Wendell C.
7. Flournoy, Scott W.
8. Frutchey, Thomas
9. Garcia, Kathleen M.
10. Gindick, Karen K.
11. Goldenring, Peter Alan
12. Gutierrez, Rick Phillip
13. Kelble, Sandra Jill
14. Kindberg, Ann Noell
15. Lee, Catherine
16. Lotton, Jeffrey Howard
17. Manley, Sherry Rene
18. Meehan, Dianne Karen
19. Murphy, Margaret Anne
20. Oberg, Carol
21. Oswaks, Jonathan
22. Ross, Mitchell Steven
23. Ruse, Linda Ellen
24. Santos, Daniel Thomas
25. Strack, Stephen Michael
26. Sutula, Chelsea Rebecca
27. Trainor, Thomas Kenneth
28. Trask, John Burdick
29. Turner, Kathleen Mary
30. Valentino, Leila Marie
31. Weingardt, Celeste
32. Woodward, David Thomas Jr.
33. Yellin, Douglas Simon
Dated: June 20, 2025
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Kate Bieker
Executive Officer & Clerk
Jury Commissioner
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By Tania Magdaleno
Jury Services Manager
Deputy Jury Commissioner