Others, including Julia Spain, Jeffrey Allen, Gordon Baranco, Gloria Rhynes and Reginald Saunders, need to work on their bedside manner.

Those were some of the insights offered by the Alameda County Judicial Evaluation Survey that was made public this week. Nearly 260 Alameda County Bar Association lawyers weighed in on 83 judges and commissioners in the East Bay’s bankruptcy court and federal bench, as well as Alameda County Superior Court judges and commissioners.