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 2017 / Active

Anne Harwood Egerton

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Anne Harwood Egerton is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2017. She previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: Since 2017 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles	–	–
2017	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Occidental College	magna cum laude	1976
University of California-Berkeley		1980

Judicial Record

In our data, Egerton authored 7 published opinions for the court (2018–2019), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: De Havilland v. FX Networks, LLC (29 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. 9 of these were attributed to Egerton 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
2018	De Havilland v. FX Networks, LLC†	230 Cal. Rptr. 3d 625	29
2018	In re Jenson· Dissent†	233 Cal. Rptr. 3d 868	26
2019	Molinaro v. Molinaro†	245 Cal. Rptr. 3d 402	22
2019	Ward v. Tilly's, Inc.· Dissent†	243 Cal. Rptr. 3d 461	15
2018	B.B. v. Cnty. of L. A.†	235 Cal. Rptr. 3d 457	10
2019	Stokes v. Baker†	248 Cal. Rptr. 3d 174	9
2018	Begian v. Sarajian (In re Begian)†	242 Cal. Rptr. 3d 692	5
2018	People v. Valdez†	239 Cal. Rptr. 3d 134	4
2019	People v. Cooper†	250 Cal. Rptr. 3d 511	3

Showing the 9 most-cited of 9 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 Anne Harwood Egerton on?: Anne Harwood Egerton is an Associate 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).