How do judges of the Supreme Court of California reach the bench?

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

Supreme Court of California / Joined 1942 / Served to 1964

B Rey Schauer

Justice, Supreme Court of California

B Rey Schauer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California, who joined the court in 1942. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1891–1977
Tenure: 1942–1964 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1942	Supreme Court of California	–	–

Education

Occidental College

Judicial Record

In our data, Schauer authored 485 published opinions for the court (1942–1965), plus 192 dissents and 111 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Watson (7,961 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. 380 of these were attributed to Schauer 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
1956	People v. Watson· Dissent†	299 P.2d 243	7,961
1960	Neal v. State of California· Dissent†	55 Cal. 2d 11	950
1943	Estate of Bristol v. Young	23 Cal. 2d 221	508
1956	Continental Casualty Co. v. Phoenix Construction Co.	46 Cal. 2d 423	439
1962	People v. McFarland· Concurrence†	376 P.2d 449	375
1949	People v. Wells	33 Cal. 2d 330	362
1963	People v. Henderson· Dissent†	386 P.2d 677	345
1945	People v. Bender	27 Cal. 2d 164	333
1946	People v. Valentine	28 Cal. 2d 121	325
1964	People v. Ford†	60 Cal. 2d 772	317
1954	People v. Ashley· Concurrence†	267 P.2d 271	317
1945	People v. Thomas	25 Cal. 2d 880	313
1964	Ginns v. Savage†	61 Cal. 2d 520	281
1963	People v. Wilson	383 P.2d 452	281
1959	People v. Gorshen	51 Cal. 2d 716	273

Showing the 15 most-cited of 788 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 Supreme Court of California reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was B Rey Schauer on?: B Rey Schauer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California.

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22 years on the Supreme Court of California. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).