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 1959 / Served to 1961

Ben C. Duniway

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Ben C. Duniway was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1959–1961 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Duniway authored 80 published opinions for the court (1959–1961), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Tate v. Canonica (105 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. 16 of these were attributed to Duniway 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
1960	Tate v. Canonica	180 Cal. App. 2d 898	105
1961	Stack v. Stack	189 Cal. App. 2d 357	46
1960	Prince v. Harting	177 Cal. App. 2d 720	34
1961	Stevens v. Torregano	192 Cal. App. 2d 105	33
1960	Buffalo Arms, Inc. v. Remler Co.	179 Cal. App. 2d 700	33
1960	People v. Alexander	182 Cal. App. 2d 281	27
1960	Gordon v. Reynolds	187 Cal. App. 2d 472	25
1961	Valentine v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals	194 Cal. App. 2d 282	21
1960	Walter v. August	186 Cal. App. 2d 395	20
1961	Kotronakis v. City & County of San Francisco	192 Cal. App. 2d 624	19
1961	People v. Brinson	191 Cal. App. 2d 253	19
1961	People v. Fields	190 Cal. App. 2d 515	18
1960	MacLeod v. City of Los Altos	182 Cal. App. 2d 364	17
1960	People v. Dosier	180 Cal. App. 2d 436	17
1960	Alamo School District v. Jones	182 Cal. App. 2d 180	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 81 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 Ben C. Duniway on?: Ben C. Duniway was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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2 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).