The Judges of the Superior Court by an Order signed June 9, 2026, nominated thirty-six (36) Ventura County citizens to the panel from which the members of the 2026-2027 Grand Jury will be drawn. Exercising an option available under amended statutes, the Judges have named among the thirty-six (36) member panel, five (5) members of the 2025-2026 Grand Jury as “holdovers” to the 2026-2027 Grand Jury. The nineteen-member 2026-2027 Grand Jury will be drawn from this 36-member panel on July 1, 2026, 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 2026-2027 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 has attempted to create a pool of prospective Grand Jurors that represents a cross-section of the community.
The 2026-2027 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 Wednesday, July 1, 2026, at which time the names of those nineteen (19) persons who will serve as 2026-2027 Grand Jurors will be drawn. Presentation to the court of the official report of the 2025-2026 Grand Jury will be made by the outgoing Grand Jury panel.