The Honorable Quentin Kopp
Chairman of the California High-Speed Rail Authority
California High-Speed Rail

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About Judge Kopp

The Honorable Quentin L. Kopp was appointed to the San Mateo Superior Court on January 1, 1999, by Governor Pete Wilson and was administered the oath of judicial office on January 2, 1999.

Judge Kopp retired effective January 31, 2004, but was immediately accepted in the Assigned Judges Program of the California Judicial Council. By order of the chief justice of the California Supreme Court, Judge Kopp has been assigned almost continuously to the San Mateo County Superior Court since February 1, 2004, with intermittent assignments to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Humboldt County Superior Court, Sonoma County Superior Court, Napa County Superior Court and Santa Cruz County Superior Court.

On June 13, 2006, the state Senate appointed him to the California High-Speed Rail Authority, charged with implementing high-speed train service from Los Angeles to San Francisco at 200 miles per hour. He was elected chairman of the Authority on August 9, 2006.

Prior to judicial appointment, Judge Kopp practiced trial law in San Francisco and Northern California. He served in the California State Senate from December 1, 1986, until December 7, 1998, and as a member of the City and County of San Francisco Board of Supervisors to which he was first elected in November 1971, and re-elected four times thereafter. He was president of such board in 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1982.

Judge Kopp's election to the California State Senate on November 4, 1986, represented election of the first non-incumbent Independent to the Senate since 1878. His re-election in 1990 constituted the first time in California history an Independent was re-elected to the Legislature. That historical milestone was reiterated by his re-election as an Independent to a third term in the Senate in 1994.

Judge Kopp served as an ex-officio member of the California Transportation Commission from 1988 until 1998, as a member of the California Law Revision Commission from 1995 until 1998, and a member of the Little Hoover Commission from 1996 until 1998. As an elected local and state legislator for 27 years, Judge Kopp also served as a leader on virtually every regional governmental policy-making body affecting the Bay Area.

For more information about Judge Kopp, see the High Speed-Rail Authority Website.