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Search for court certified and registered interpreters who are in good standing with the Judicial Council. Interpreters are added to this list after passing the required examination and officially registering with the Judicial Council.

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Please note that in order to perform a comprehensive search for Mandarin, Russian, Eastern Armenian, and Western Armenian interpreters, you must search both the certified and registered language categories separately.

Additional Resources

• Medical and Administrative Hearing Interpreters
  For administrative hearing or medical interpreters, please visit Cooperative Personnel Services--Human Resource Services
• Indigenous Mexican Languages
  List of interpreters from the Oaxacan region of Mexico trained by the Mexican Indigenous Interpreters Project .
• Dialects and Languages
  An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world's 6,912 known living languages can be found at Ethnologue
• The National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators
  The National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators (NAJIT) website can be found at: http://www.najit.org .
• American Translators Association
  The American Translators Association (ATA) website can be found at: http://www.atanet.org .
• Recent Exam Passers (PDF)
  Interpreters who have passed the Certification of English Fluency Exam but have not officially registered with the Judicial Council.
• Decertified and Deregistered Interpreters (PDF)
  List of decertified, deregistered, retired, or deceased interpreters.

* Disclaimer:

The Judicial Council's Master List of Certified Court Interpreters of Designated Languages and Registered Interpreters of Nondesignated Languages is provided to assist you in locating an interpreter. You will be held liable for misuse of the information contained in the Master List, including but not limited to the theft or unauthorized use of certification and/or registration numbers.

Government Code §27293 permits California county clerks to certify documents translated into English only if the document has been translated by American Translators Association certified translators, California Certified Court Interpreters, or California Registered Court Interpreters. Court Interpreters Certified by, or Registered with, the Judicial Council of California are authorized in a judicial proceeding to interpret orally the verbal content of documents, but the Judicial Council does not otherwise test or certify an interpreter's written translation skills.

AB 349, the 2007 legislation responsible for this provision under Government Code §27293, can be found at: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_0301-0350/ab_349_bill_20070926_chaptered.pdf

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