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 1953 / Served to 1979

Bertram D. Janes

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Bertram D. Janes was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1953. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1915–1998
Tenure: 1953–1979 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1953	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1968	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Janes authored 97 published opinions for the court (1963–1979), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Shea v. Board of Medical Examiners (56 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. 10 of these were attributed to Janes 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
1978	Shea v. Board of Medical Examiners	81 Cal. App. 3d 564	56
1973	Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Civil Service Employees Insurance	33 Cal. App. 3d 26	50
1969	Peacock v. County of Sacramento	271 Cal. App. 2d 845	47
1972	Martin v. State Personnel Board	26 Cal. App. 3d 573	34
1971	People v. Wells	14 Cal. App. 3d 348	31
1977	Brousseau v. Jarrett	73 Cal. App. 3d 864	30
1977	Harris v. Cavasso	68 Cal. App. 3d 723	29
1975	People v. Butler	47 Cal. App. 3d 273	29
1977	People v. Boothe	65 Cal. App. 3d 685	28
1975	People v. Chapman	47 Cal. App. 3d 597	27
1972	Thomas v. Superior Court	22 Cal. App. 3d 972	26
1970	People v. Coleman	8 Cal. App. 3d 722	26
1973	Birt v. Superior Court	34 Cal. App. 3d 934	24
1970	People v. Andrews	14 Cal. App. 3d 40	24
1972	Cecka v. Beckman & Co.	28 Cal. App. 3d 5	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 98 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 Bertram D. Janes on?: Bertram D. Janes was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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26 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).