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 2018 / Active

Carin Teru Fujisaki

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Carin Teru Fujisaki is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2018. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2018 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2018	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

UC Law San Francisco		1981
University of California-Los Angeles		1985

Judicial Record

In our data, Fujisaki authored 4 published opinions for the court (2019). Most cited: Jackson v. Kaiser Found. Hosps., Inc. (23 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. 4 of these were attributed to Fujisaki 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
2019	Jackson v. Kaiser Found. Hosps., Inc.†	243 Cal. Rptr. 3d 648	23
2019	Strouse v. Webcor Constr., L.P.†	246 Cal. Rptr. 3d 419	11
2019	People v. J.M. (In re J.M.)†	248 Cal. Rptr. 3d 191	10
2019	Timlick v. Nat'l Enter. Sys., Inc.†	247 Cal. Rptr. 3d 575	10

Showing the 4 most-cited of 4 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 is Carin Teru Fujisaki on?: Carin Teru Fujisaki is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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7 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).