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 1968 / Served to 1988

Allison M. Rouse

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Allison M. Rouse was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1968–1988 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1981	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rouse authored 202 published opinions for the court (1971–1992), plus 4 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Soriano (108 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. 39 of these were attributed to Rouse 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
1987	People v. Soriano	194 Cal. App. 3d 1470	108
1983	People v. Cooks	141 Cal. App. 3d 224	107
1988	Owens v. Kings Supermarket	198 Cal. App. 3d 379	76
1979	Sierra Club, Inc. v. California Coastal Commission	95 Cal. App. 3d 495	55
1978	Bellah v. Greenson	81 Cal. App. 3d 614	52
1988	People v. Muldrow	202 Cal. App. 3d 636	51
1974	Banerian v. O'MALLEY	42 Cal. App. 3d 604	50
1986	Cuenca v. Safeway San Francisco Employees Federal Credit Union	180 Cal. App. 3d 985	49
1979	Ankeny v. Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.	88 Cal. App. 3d 531	47
1984	San Franciscans for Reasonable Growth v. City & County of San Francisco	151 Cal. App. 3d 61	46
1980	City of Walnut Creek v. County of Contra Costa	101 Cal. App. 3d 1012	46
1979	People v. Cole	94 Cal. App. 3d 854	43
1983	American Canyon Fire Protection District v. County of Napa	141 Cal. App. 3d 100	41
1980	People v. Gaines	112 Cal. App. 3d 508	41
1974	Porter v. Sandra R.†	41 Cal. App. 3d 694	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 214 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 Allison M. Rouse on?: Allison M. Rouse was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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20 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).