Career Highlights: Retired July 2020. Elected to the Santa Cruz County Superior Court, 2008; assistant district attorney, head of trial operations, chief deputy district attorney, Santa Cruz County, 1997-2008; assistant district attorney, deputy prosecutor, Rowan County, North Carolina, 1991-95; deputy district attorney, Orange County 1988-90; assistant U.S. attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington D.C. Los Angeles, 1983-87; clerk for U.S. District Judge Albert W. Coffrin, Vermont, 1982-83
Law School: UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, 1982
After being publicly censured for a string of misconduct isssues, Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Ariadne “Ari” J. Symons is on the path to redeem herself in a new assignment in dependency court.
Symons was disciplined by the Commission on Judicial Performance on May 20 and admitted to several misconduct allegations in and out of court raised by the panel. The commission issued her a severe public censure, the seco... (continued)
