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Santa Barbara County Superior Court — Department Five (Judge Colleen K. Sterne) Departmental Requirements and Procedures

High confidence· verified October 7, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment Five (Judge Colleen K. Sterne) Departmental Requirements and Procedures, Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara; posted on the court's Judicial Assignments page (https://www.santabarbara.courts.ca.gov/general-information/judicial-assignments) at https://www.santabarbara.courts.ca.gov/system/files/general/department-5-requirements-and-procedures.pdf, fetched 2026-10-07.

Summary

Department Five's calendar (civil case management and law and motion on Monday, trials Tuesday to Friday, probate, mental health and CARE Act matters on Thursday, civil mandatory settlement conferences on Friday); ex parte matters at 8:30 a.m. except Mondays; pretrial preparation - the evidence binder's table of contents, witness list, trial brief and in limine motions five court days before the Trial Confirmation Conference and a joint evidence binder three court days before; trial rules on depositions, time, the order of proof, etiquette, objections, witnesses, recordings, interpreters and exhibits; and jury trials - CACI instructions, six peremptory challenges, the 6-pack, voir dire and jury fees posted 25 days before trial.

Applies to

California > Second Appellate District > Santa Barbara County > Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara > Anacapa Division, Department 5

Source of truth

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT DEPARTMENT FIVE JUDGE COLLEEN K. STERNE Departmental Requirements and Procedures Please become familiar with the Santa Barbara County Superior Court Local Rules, for general guidance regarding local practices and procedures. Each Judge may have certain additional requirements. Ex Parte setting, Trial Setting and Trial Preparation practices have nuances individua

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: October 7, 2026benchpath-ca-t4-santa-barbara-2026-10-07

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-07 (California T4 Santa Barbara build 2026-10-07) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-santa-barbara/docs/general/department-5-requirements-and-procedures.pdf (194619 bytes, sha256 4df68e6420e7e74a8fa09061da4b3a13bea57fdbda7a1f2d7a4682b52ba65727; 8 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): page marks and running headers or footers removed as chrome (a running header or footer kept once where it names or dates the document); lines reflowed into the document's paragraphs; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. Documented settings (whitespace-only or same-character changes; the proofs hold): the hyphen printed at the end of “each cross-”, which the text layer stores as a soft hyphen (U+00AD), set as the hyphen the print shows and “cross-complainant’s” joined across the line; the Court Calendar's times set one per line as printed, a sentence the reflow broke rejoined and an indented paragraph set apart (whitespace fixes). Attached to Judge Colleen K. Sterne: the document is for Dept. 5 of the Anacapa Division, where the court's Judicial Assignments page seats Judge Colleen K. Sterne and its Superior Court Organization & Locations page lists the officer in that division. Review note: The pretrial e-mail copies go to “srebernik@sbcourts.org” and the jury instruction copies to “nreigelman@sbcourts.org”; the court personnel list names Court Clerk Stephen Rebernik. Published as printed: “(Bates stamp or pagination.”.