How do judges of the California Court of Appeal reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

California Court of Appeal / Joined 2010 / Active

Adrienne M. Grover

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Adrienne M. Grover is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2010. She previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Monterey. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Superior Court of California, County of Monterey	–	–
2009	Superior Court of California, County of Monterey	–	–
2010	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2012	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of California-Berkeley		1984
Santa Clara University		1990

Judicial Record

In our data, Grover authored 46 published opinions for the court (1979–2019), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Kim (122 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 47 of these were attributed to Grover by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2011	People v. Kim†	193 Cal. App. 4th 836	122
2011	People v. Holmberg†	195 Cal. App. 4th 1310	114
2014	Cansino v. Bank of America†	224 Cal. App. 4th 1462	95
2013	People v. Rodriguez†	222 Cal. App. 4th 578	94
2016	Almanor Lakeside Villas Owners Ass'n. v. Carson†	246 Cal. App. 4th 761	66
2014	Jones v. Wachovia Bank†	230 Cal. App. 4th 935	65
2019	Juen v. Alain Pinel Realtors, Inc.†	244 Cal. Rptr. 3d 411	60
2018	Huff v. Securitas Sec. Servs. United States, Inc.†	233 Cal. Rptr. 3d 502	55
2014	Lintz v. Lintz†	222 Cal. App. 4th 1346	43
2019	Wade v. Superior Court†	245 Cal. Rptr. 3d 435	42
2015	People v. Ortega†	240 Cal. App. 4th 956	42
2016	Ling v. P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc.†	245 Cal. App. 4th 1242	40
2011	Bodo v. Bodo†	198 Cal. App. 4th 373	39
2017	Marriage of Schleich†	8 Cal. App. 5th 267	38
2016	People v. Garcia· Concurrence†	247 Cal. App. 4th 1013	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 48 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the California Court of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court is Adrienne M. Grover on?: Adrienne M. Grover is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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15 years on the California Court of Appeal. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).