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 1923 / Served to 1925

Af St. Sure

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Af St. Sure was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1923. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1923–1925 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1923	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sure authored 73 published opinions for the court (1922–1925), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Bank of Italy v. Newman (34 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. 4 of these were attributed to Sure 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
1924	Bank of Italy v. Newman	229 P. 898	34
1923	Frohliger v. Richardson	218 P. 497	30
1925	People v. Ekstromer	235 P. 69	28
1924	In Re Estate of Barr	230 P. 181	27
1923	Bank v. Bell	217 P. 538	24
1924	Pellaton v. Brunski· Dissent	231 P. 583	23
1923	Ex Parte Apakean	218 P. 767	21
1924	Webber v. Bank of Tracy	225 P. 41	20
1924	People v. Dillon	229 P. 974	18
1923	Brown v. Beck	220 P. 14	17
1923	People v. Hale	222 P.2d 148	15
1923	Schneider v. Henley	215 P. 1036	15
1923	Paddon v. Superior Court	223 P. 91	13
1924	People v. Clinton	233 P. 78	12
1924	Muehlebach v. Paso Robles Springs Hotel	225 P. 19	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 75 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 was Af St. Sure on?: Af St. Sure was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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2 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).