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 2018 / Active

Alison Margaret Tucher

Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal

Alison Margaret Tucher is a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), serving since 2018. She previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Alameda. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1962 · age 64
Tenure: Since 2018 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Superior Court of California, County of Alameda	–	–
2018	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2021	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Williams College	Economics	1984
University of Cambridge		1986
Stanford University		1992

Judicial Record

In our data, Tucher authored 18 published opinions for the court (2018–2019), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: People v. Edwards (119 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. 19 of these were attributed to Tucher 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
2019	People v. Edwards†	246 Cal. Rptr. 3d 40	119
2019	People v. Wilson†	245 Cal. Rptr. 3d 256	80
2019	People v. Superior Court (Alexander C.)†	246 Cal. Rptr. 3d 712	31
2018	Howard v. Goldbloom†	241 Cal. Rptr. 3d 743	19
2019	Boatworks, LLC v. City of Alameda†	247 Cal. Rptr. 3d 159	15
2018	Santa Barbara Channelkeeper v. City of San Buenaventura†	228 Cal. Rptr. 3d 584	14
2018	Prof'l Collection Consultants v. Lujan†	233 Cal. Rptr. 3d 211	12
2018	Sims v. Kernan†	241 Cal. Rptr. 3d 300	11
2018	People v. Meza†	232 Cal. Rptr. 3d 894	10
2019	Hernandez v. Enter. Rent-A-Car Co. of San Francisco†	249 Cal. Rptr. 3d 467	7
2019	Boschetti v. Pac. Bay Invs. Inc.†	244 Cal. Rptr. 3d 480	7
2018	People v. L.O. (In re L.O.)†	238 Cal. Rptr. 3d 401	7
2018	Fong v. E. W. Bank†	227 Cal. Rptr. 3d 838	7
2019	Brown v. Pacifica Found., Inc.†	246 Cal. Rptr. 3d 822	6
2018	People v. Gutierrez†	238 Cal. Rptr. 3d 729	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 19 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 Alison Margaret Tucher on?: Alison Margaret Tucher is a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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8 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).