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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 2011 / Active

Andrea Lynn Hoch

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Andrea Lynn Hoch is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Stanford University		1981
University of the Pacific		1984

Judicial Record

In our data, Hoch authored 84 published opinions for the court (2011–2019). Most cited: People v. Fuimaono (127 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. 84 of these were attributed to Hoch 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. Fuimaono†	243 Cal. Rptr. 3d 545	127
2012	Smith v. Smith†	208 Cal. App. 4th 1074	91
2017	People v. Lara†	9 Cal. App. 5th 296	69
2011	People v. Kovacich†	201 Cal. App. 4th 863	68
2015	People v. Tran†	242 Cal. App. 4th 877	54
2013	The People v. McCoy†	215 Cal. App. 4th 1510	49
2013	Collins v. Navistar, Inc.†	214 Cal. App. 4th 1486	47
2012	People v. Simmons†	210 Cal. App. 4th 778	43
2012	William L. Lyon & Associates, Inc. v. Superior Court†	204 Cal. App. 4th 1294	43
2013	Lafferty v. Wells Fargo Bank†	213 Cal. App. 4th 545	42
2018	High Sierra Rural Alliance v. Cnty. of Plumas†	239 Cal. Rptr. 3d 874	40
2013	People v. Fandinola†	221 Cal. App. 4th 1415	39
2016	People v. Cornejo†	3 Cal. App. 5th 36	37
2014	Saltonstall v. City of Sacramento†	231 Cal. App. 4th 837	36
2014	Ellis Law Group, LLP v. Nevada City Sugar Loaf Properties, LLC†	230 Cal. App. 4th 244	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 84 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 Andrea Lynn Hoch on?: Andrea Lynn Hoch 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).