Victoria Kolakowski (born August 29, 1961)[1] is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the Alameda County Superior Court since January 2011.

[3] She is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City and the first person in her family to attend college.

[7] Kolakowski graduated from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with a juris doctor in 1989.

[12] Before she was elected with 51% of the vote to her opponent's 48% on November 2, 2010, Kolakowski served as an administrative law judge with the California Public Utilities Commission for four years.

[17][18][19] Kolakowski married Cynthia Laird, news editor of the Bay Area Reporter, on June 16, 2008.