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 1987 / Served to 2010

Arthur G. Scotland

Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal

Arthur G. Scotland was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: 1987–2010 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1989	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1998	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Scotland authored 250 published opinions for the court (1989–2010), plus 2 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: In Re SC (527 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. 41 of these were attributed to Scotland 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
2006	In Re SC	41 Cal. Rptr. 3d 453	527
2010	Keyes v. Bowen	189 Cal. App. 4th 647	268
1991	Nymark v. Heart Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n	231 Cal. App. 3d 1089	257
1990	Neighbours v. Buzz Oates Enterprises	217 Cal. App. 3d 325	214
1994	In Re Sarah M.	22 Cal. App. 4th 1642	208
2003	Weinberg v. Feisel	2 Cal. Rptr. 3d 385	158
2001	Lewis v. County of Sacramento	113 Cal. Rptr. 2d 90	128
2000	In Re Dakota S.	102 Cal. Rptr. 2d 196	128
1997	Shaw v. Regents of University of California	58 Cal. App. 4th 44	125
2002	People v. Ryan D.	123 Cal. Rptr. 2d 193	107
1994	People v. Gibson	27 Cal. App. 4th 1466	106
1992	People v. Woods	8 Cal. App. 4th 1570	104
2007	People v. Crittle	64 Cal. Rptr. 3d 605	96
1994	Butte County Child Protective Services v. Harry T.	23 Cal. App. 4th 1367	95
1996	In Re Joseph B.	42 Cal. App. 4th 890	91

Showing the 15 most-cited of 265 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 G. Scotland on?: Arthur G. Scotland was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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23 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).