A state intermediate appellate court / Established 1905

California Court of Appeal

San Francisco · An intermediate appellate court in California.

The California Court of Appeal is an intermediate appellate court in California, the tier between the state's trial courts and the Supreme Court of California. Its justices are chosen by gubernatorial appointment from a nominating commission, followed by retention elections, the same method California uses for its court of last resort. This page lists every justice to serve on the court, current and former.

391

Justices in history

Currently serving

Merit selection

Selection

12-yr

Term

Current justices

Justice	Since
Ralph C. Harrison	1905
Coleman A. Blease	1979
Judith M. Ashmann-Gerst	1981
Elwood G. H. Lui	1981
Arthur Gilbert	1982
Judith Dobson McConnell	1983
Franklin Daniel Elia	1988
Richard D. Huffman Sr.	1988
Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian · Chief	1989
Art Wilkie McKinster	1990
Manuel Angelo Ramirez	1990
Kenneth Rodney Yegan	1990
Vance Wallace Raye	1991
Judith Lynnette Ondrasik Haller	1994
Steven Zalkind Perren	1999
Richard Todd Fields	2000
Eileen C. Moore	2000
Kathleen Elizabeth O'Leary	2000
Richard M. Aronson	2001
Laurence David Rubin	2001
Mark Benedict Simons	2001
Richard David Fybel	2002
Sandra Lynn Margulies	2002
Stuart Robert Pollak	2002
Ronald B. Robie	2002
John Shepard, Jr. Wiley	2002
Cynthia Aaron	2003
Thomas DeSantos	2003
Joan Kathleen Irion	2003
Victoria Marie Chavez	2005
Frances Rothschild	2005
Thomas Lyle Willhite Jr.	2005
Jennifer Rae Steding Detjen	2006
Brad R. Hill	2006
Douglas Paul Miller	2006
James A. Richman	2006
Peter John Siggins	2006
Maria Elena Stratton	2006
Henry Earl Needham Jr.	2007
Martin Joseph Jenkins	2008
Kathleen M. Banke	2009
Victoria Gerrard Chaney	2009
Charles Suren Poochigian	2009
M. Bruce Smith	2009
Elena Jeannette Duarte	2010
Donald R. Franson Jr.	2010
Elizabeth Annette Grimes	2010
Adrienne M. Grover	2010
Louis Robert Keane Mauro	2010
William J. Murray Jr.	2010
Andrea Lynn Hoch	2011
James Michael Humes	2012
Rosendo Peña Jr.	2012
Audrey B. Collins	2014
Brian Matthew Hoffstadt	2014
Marla Jo Miller	2014
Therese Marie Stewart	2014
Jon Burgess Streeter	2014
Lamar W. Baker	2015
Luis A. Lavin	2015
Jonathan Keith Renner	2015
John Lawrence Segal	2015
Marsha G. Slough	2015
Martin John Tangeman	2016
William Steven Dato	2017
Anne Harwood Egerton	2017
Patricia Guerrero	2017
Kathleen A. Meehan	2017
Helen Irene Bendix	2018
Tracie Lynne Brown	2018
Gordon Bruce Burns	2018
Brian Sean Currey	2018
Allison Marston Danner	2018
Halim Dhanidina	2018
Gail Ruderman Feuer	2018
Carin Teru Fujisaki	2018
Thomas Michael Goethals	2018
Mary J. Greenwood	2018
Dorothy Chung-Soo Kim	2018
Peter Andrew Krause	2018
Frank John Menetrez	2018
Carl Holliday Moor	2018
Ioana Petrou	2018
Michael Jay Raphael	2018
Gabriel P. Sanchez	2018
Mark Wood Snauffer	2018
Alison Margaret Tucher	2018
Teri Leatrice Jackson	2020
Victor A. Rodríguez	2021

Former justices

Justice	Years
Miguel Marquez	2012–2016
David A. Thompson	2012–2021
Terence Lee Bruiniers	2009–2018
Robert Louis Dondero	2009–2018
Jeffrey W. Johnson	2009–2020
Tricia Ann Bigelow	2008–2021
Frank Y. Jackson	2008–2013
Stephen J.. Kane	2006–2017
Ignazio John Ruvolo	2006–2018
Steven C. Suzukawa	2006–2014
Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye	2005–2011
Madeleine I. Flier	2003–2018
Raymond John Ikola	2003–2021
Jeffrey King	2003–2016
Gene M. Gomes	2002–2018
Maria P. Rivera	2002–2018
Richard M. Mosk	2001–2016
Dennis Allison Cornell	2000–2015
Betty L. Dawson	2000–2012
Laurie D. Zelon	2000–2020
Candace D. Cooper	1999–2008
Wendy Clark Duffy	1999–2011
Dennis M. Perluss	1999–2017
Richard J. Mcadams	1998–2011
Mary Kathleen Butz	1997–2020
Linda M. Gemello	1997–2008
Elizabeth A. Baron	1996–1998
Consuelo Maria Callahan	1996–2003
Barbara J. R. Jones	1996–2020
Alex C. McDonald	1995–2016
Richard D. Aldrich	1994–2017
Janice Rogers Brown	1994–1996
J Gary Hastings	1993–2006
Nora Margaret Manella	1992–2018
Orville A. Armstrong	1991–1993
Kathryn M. Werdegar	1991–1994
Ming William Chin	1990–1996
Thomas A. Harris	1990–2008
Patti S. Kitching	1990–1993
Betty Ann Richli	1990–1994
Sandy R. Kriegler	1989–2018
James R. Lambden	1989–1996
Fred K. Morrison	1989–1994
George Nicholson	1989–2018
Patricia K. Sepulveda	1989–1998
Lawrence T. Stevens	1989–1998
Steven M. Vartabedian	1989–2010
Joyce L. Kennard	1988–1989
James J. Marchiano	1988–2013
William A. Masterson	1988–1993
Nathan D. Mihara	1988–1993
Joanne C. Parrilli	1988–1995
John Clinton Peterson	1988–1998
Patricia D. Benke	1987–2021
Roger W. Boren	1987–2017
H Walter Croskey	1987–2014
David Eagleson	1987–1991
Ronald M. George	1987–1991
Margaret Grignon	1987–2004
Michael G. Nott	1987–2005
Arthur G. Scotland	1987–2010
Douglas E. Swager	1987–1995
Paul Turner	1987–2017
William R. McGuiness	1986–2017
J. Clinton Peterson	1986–1992
Miriam A. Vogel	1986–2008
John Zebrowski	1986–1999
James A. Ardaiz	1985–2010
Timothy S. Buckley	1985–2005
H. Walter Croskey	1985–2014
Rodney Davis	1985–2009
Nick J. Dibiaso	1985–2006
J. Gary Hastings	1985–1993
Thomas E. Hollenhorst	1985–2017
Spencer Letts	1985–2000
Ramona G. Perez	1985–1993
Michael J. Phelan	1985–1992
Timothy A. Reardon	1985–2018
William F. Rylaarsdam	1985–2016
Mo Sabraw	1985–1988
David George Sills	1985–2011
William Stein	1985–2008
James F. Thaxter	1985–2001
Herbert W. Walker	1985–1996
William M. Wunderlich	1985–1993
Henry Trumbull Moore Jr.	1984–1994
Reuben A. Ortega	1984–2004
James F. Perley	1984–1995
Fred Woods	1984–2015
Howard M. Dabney	1983–1995
Laurence Donald Kay	1983–2005
Daniel J. Kremer	1983–2003
Edward P. Panelli	1983–1985
George E. Danielson	1982–1992
Donald N. Gates	1982–1995
John W. Holmdahl	1982–1990
Earl Johnson Jr.	1982–2007
John Anthony Kline	1982–2021
Paul Boland	1981–2007
Thomas Fulton Crosby Jr.	1981–2001
Kathryn Doi Todd	1981–2013
Zerne P. Haning III	1981–2000
Lawrence Donald Kay	1981–2005
Sheila Prell Sonenshine	1981–1999
Gary Strankman	1981–1991
Betty B. Deal	1980–1981
Norman L. Epstein	1980–2018
Robert M. Mallano	1980–2014
Richard M. Sims III	1980–2010
Leon Thompson	1980–1988
Robert J. Timlin	1980–1994
Robert L. Dossee	1979–1998
Morio L. Fukuto	1979–1999
Joseph R. Grodin	1979–1982
Gerald Jorgensen Lewis	1979–1987
Jerome A. Smith	1979–1996
John K. Trotter Jr.	1979–1987
George N. Zenovich	1979–1984
Richard Amerian	1978–1984
Robert R. Devich	1978–1992
Paul N. Halvonik	1978–1979
Charles F. Hamlin	1978–1989
Daniel M. Hanlon	1978–1995
John J. Miller	1978–1985
Gilbert Nares	1978–2019
Conrad L. Rushing	1978–2017
Kathryn Todd	1978–2013
Edward Jens Wallin	1978–2000
Betty Barry-Deal	1977–1990
Christopher C. Cottle	1977–1993
Sidney Feinberg	1977–1984
Pauline Hanson	1977–1987
Robert L. Martin	1977–1997
Eugene McCloskey	1977–1990
Marcel B. Poché	1977–2012
Robert E. Rickles	1977–1987
Keith F. Sparks	1977–1997
William F Stone Jr.	1977–1999
Clinton W. White	1977–1994
Donald Bruce King	1976–1996
Eugene McClosky	1976–1990
Cruz Reynoso	1976–1982
Vaino Spencer	1976–2007
Steven J. Stone	1976–1999
Arleigh M. Woods	1976–1995
Don Ross Work	1976–2001
Carl W. Anderson	1975–1997
Edward Thomas Butler	1975–1988
Frances Newell Carr	1975–1992
Edward A. Hinz Jr.	1975–1994
Edwin L. Jefferson	1975–1980
Joan Dempsey Klein	1975–2014
William A. Newsom Jr.	1975–1995
Eugene M. Premo	1975–2003
Howard B. Wiener	1975–1993
John E. Benson	1974–1994
Walter P. Capaccioli	1974–1992
Hugh Arthur Evans	1974–1990
Harry W. Low	1974–1991
Fred W. Marler Jr.	1974–1992
F. Douglas McDaniel	1974–1990
Franklin D. McDaniel	1974–1990
George E. Paras	1974–1981
William L. Todd Jr.	1974–1994
Wickson Woolpert	1974–1989
Hollis G. Best	1973–1994
Harry F. Brauer	1973–1989
Lloyd T. Hanson	1973–1990
Nat Agliano	1972–1992
Herbert L. Ashby	1972–1992
Joseph B. Campbell	1972–1989
Gordon Cologne	1972–1984
Charles W. Froehlich Jr.	1972–1995
James H. Hastings	1972–1987
William P. Clark Jr.	1971–1973
Robert F. Kane	1971–1979
Rodney K. Potter	1971–1983
Robert Puglia	1971–1998
Frank K. Richardson	1971–1974
Richard B. Ault	1970–1977
William R. Channell	1970–1990
Lynn D. Compton	1970–1990
John G. Gabbert	1970–1974
Jack E. Goertzen	1970–1991
John H. Hews	1970–1989
Campbell M. Lucas	1970–1991
M. O. Sabraw	1970–1988
Charles S. Vogel	1970–1977
John R. Allport	1969–1981
George A. Brown	1969–1987
Thomas William Caldecott	1969–1984
Roy S. Gustafson	1969–1971
Robert W. Merrill	1969–1996
James B. Scott	1969–1988
Harmon Groesbeck Scoville	1969–1990
John F. Aiso	1968–1972
Edwin F. Beach	1968–1986
Joseph Anthony Decristoforo	1968–1990
Gerold C. Dunn	1968–1977
L. Thaxton Hanson	1968–1990
William A. Reppy	1968–1972
Allison M. Rouse	1968–1988
Harold W. Schweitzer	1968–1973
Donald R. Wright	1968–1970
Jay R. Ballantyne	1966–1988
Harold C. Brown	1966–1976
James A. Cobey	1966–1981
Shirley M. Hufstedler	1966–1968
Margaret J. Morris	1966–1986
Conrad J. Moss	1966–1969
Joseph A. Rattigan	1966–1984
Stephen K. Tamura	1966–1982
Robert S. Thompson	1966–1979
Richard W. Abbe	1965–1990
Robert Feinerman	1965–1988
Edwin J. Regan	1965–1987
Richard A. Schauer	1965–1984
Vincent A. Whelan	1965–1986
Arthur L. Alarcon	1964–1979
Gordon L. Files	1964–1982
Otto Kaus	1964–1981
John T. Racanelli	1964–1991
Robert O. Staniforth	1964–1986
Kenneth Andreen	1963–1985
Gerald Brown	1963–1985
Robert Kingsley	1963–1987
John B. Molinari	1962–1976
James R. Agee	1961–1970
Frank S. Balthis	1961–1963
Louis H. Burke	1961–1964
Vincent S. Dalsimer	1961–1985
Preston Devine	1961–1978
Leonard M. Friedman	1961–1978
Bernard S. Jefferson	1961–1975
Fred R. Pierce	1961–1971
Byrl R. Salsman	1961–1969
Raymond L. Sullivan	1961–1966
Martin J. Coughlin	1960–1971
Daniel R. Shoemaker	1960–1971
Winslow Christian	1959–1983
Ben C. Duniway	1959–1961
Norman Elkington	1959–1988
Macklin Fleming	1959–1981
John J. Ford	1959–1977
Matthew O. Tobriner	1959–1962
Roy L. Herndon	1958–1973
Arthur C. Shepard	1958–1963
Clarke E. Stephens	1958–1984
Murray Draper	1957–1977
Allen W. Ashburn	1956–1963
Walter J. Fourt	1955–1969
Herbert C. Kaufman	1954–1987
Bertram D. Janes	1953–1979
Andrew R. Schottky	1953–1964
W Turney Fox	1952–1964
Wakefield Taylor	1951–1982
Van Dyke	1950–1961
Benjamin Franklin Van Dyke	1950–1961
Louis C. Drapeau	1949–1955
Mildred L. Lillie	1949–2002
Stanley W. Mussell	1948–1960
Paul Vallée	1948–1961
Absalom F. Bray	1947–1964
Robert Gardner	1947–1981
Maurice T. Dooling Jr.	1945–1960
Emmet H. Wilson	1945–1985
Cj Goodell	1944–1953
Annette Abbott Adams	1942–1952
Annette Annette	1942–1952
Paul Peek	1942–1962
Clement L. Shinn	1941–1966
Parker Wood	1941–1999
Minor Moore	1939–1958
Raymond E. Peters	1939–1959
Lloyd E. Griffin	1938–1965
Louis H. Ward	1938–1950
Marshall F. McComb	1937–1955
Jess E. Stephens	1937–1953
Thomas P. White	1937–1972
William C. Doran	1935–1958
Lester W. Roth	1931–1991
Homer R. Spence	1930–1960
Charles R. Barnard	1929–1958
Rolfe Lyon Thompson	1929–1950
Joseph S. Koford	1927–1930
John Francis Pullen	1926–1941
Ira Thompson	1926–1932
D. A'rcy Cashin	1925–1928
Benjamin K. Knight	1924–1946
Frederick Houser	1923–1937
Af St. Sure	1923–1925
George A. Sturtevant	1921–1949
John F. Tyler	1921–1949
Frank S. Brittain	1919–1929
William H. Langdon	1919–1926
John T. Nourse	1919–1967
William H. Waste	1919–1921
John E. Richards	1913–1963
Thomas J. Lennon	1910–1919
Albert Glenn Burnett	1906–1923
Abraham Jay Buckles	1905–1907
Thomas E. Haven	?–1919

How a justice reaches this court. Justices of the California Court of Appeal are appointed by the governor to 12-year terms and then face yes-or-no retention elections. Selection methods vary by jurisdiction and have changed over time; this page reflects the court’s current method (source: National Center for State Courts). Open any justice to see their tenure and whom they succeeded.

Source: CourtListener / Free Law Project (bulk data); selection method from the National Center for State Courts. Data last verified 2026-06-30. Verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).