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 1999 / Served to 2008

Candace D. Cooper

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Candace D. Cooper was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1999–2008 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cooper authored 68 published opinions for the court (2000–2008), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: People v. Gaio (108 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. 71 of these were attributed to Cooper 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
2000	People v. Gaio†	97 Cal. Rptr. 2d 392	108
2003	1-800 CONTACTS, INC. v. Steinberg†	132 Cal. Rptr. 2d 789	86
2006	Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services v. Margaret M.†	138 Cal. App. 4th 529	85
2001	People v. Kurey†	106 Cal. Rptr. 2d 150	85
2008	Taheri Law Group v. Evans†	72 Cal. Rptr. 3d 847	71
2006	Kelly v. Stamps. Com Inc.†	38 Cal. Rptr. 3d 240	61
2008	People v. Conners†	168 Cal. App. 4th 443	59
2008	Enpalm, Lcc v. Teitler Family Trust· Dissent†	75 Cal. Rptr. 3d 902	55
2008	People v. Esquibel†	166 Cal. App. 4th 539	46
2002	People v. Bojorquez†	104 Cal. App. 4th 335	43
2008	Ritter & Ritter, Inc. Pension & Profit Plan v. the Churchill Condominium Assn.†	166 Cal. App. 4th 103	39
2008	WSS Industrial Construction, Inc. v. Great West Contractors, Inc.†	76 Cal. Rptr. 3d 8	34
2005	In Re Marriage of McTiernan and Dubrow· Concurrence†	35 Cal. Rptr. 3d 287	32
2008	Russell v. Foglio†	73 Cal. Rptr. 3d 87	29
2006	Trancas Property Owners Ass'n v. City of Malibu†	41 Cal. Rptr. 3d 200	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 71 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 Candace D. Cooper on?: Candace D. Cooper was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

9 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).