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 1964 / Served to 1979

Arthur L. Alarcon

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Arthur L. Alarcon was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1964. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1964–1979 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1964	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1978	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Alarcon authored 61 published opinions for the court (1969–1979), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: People v. Hall (38 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. 1 of these was attributed to Alarcon 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
1979	People v. Hall	95 Cal. App. 3d 299	38
1979	People v. Alva	90 Cal. App. 3d 418	36
1970	Vandenberg v. Superior Court	8 Cal. App. 3d 1048	31
1979	People v. Terrill	98 Cal. App. 3d 291	30
1979	People v. Cornejo	92 Cal. App. 3d 637	30
1979	People v. White· Concurrence†	89 Cal. App. 3d 143	30
1969	Unimart v. Superior Court	1 Cal. App. 3d 1039	27
1971	People v. Superior Court	15 Cal. App. 3d 146	26
1978	People v. Hall	87 Cal. App. 3d 125	23
1970	People v. Superior Court	13 Cal. App. 3d 672	23
1970	Cohen v. Superior Court	5 Cal. App. 3d 429	23
1969	Reinert v. Superior Court	2 Cal. App. 3d 36	22
1978	In Re Marriage of Johnston	85 Cal. App. 3d 900	21
1970	People v. Superior Court	3 Cal. App. 3d 648	21
1979	People v. Billetts	89 Cal. App. 3d 302	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 62 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 Arthur L. Alarcon on?: Arthur L. Alarcon was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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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).