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Supreme Court of California / Joined 2006 / Active

Carol Ann Corrigan

Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California

Carol Ann Corrigan is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, serving since 2006. She previously served on the Municipal Court of California, County of Alameda. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1948 · age 78
Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Municipal Court of California, County of Alameda	–	–
2006	Supreme Court of California	–	–

Education

Holy Names University	magna cum laude	1970
St. Louis University	Clinical Psychology	1972
UC Law San Francisco		1975

Judicial Record

In our data, Corrigan authored 264 published opinions for the court (1994–2019), plus 11 dissents and 27 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Kelly (3,039 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. 158 of these were attributed to Corrigan 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
2006	People v. Kelly· Concurrence†	146 P.3d 547	3,039
2009	People v. Doolin†	45 Cal. 4th 390	1,701
2014	People v. Gutierrez· Concurrence†	58 Cal. 4th 1354	935
2016	People v. Sanchez†	63 Cal. 4th 665	761
2016	Baral v. Schnitt†	1 Cal. 5th 376	744
2014	People v. Bryant, Smith and Wheeler†	60 Cal. 4th 335	716
2014	People v. Centeno†	60 Cal. 4th 659	579
2019	Oto, L. L.C. v. Kho†	251 Cal. Rptr. 3d 714	517
2013	People v. Beltran†	56 Cal. 4th 935	513
2013	The People v. Edwards· Concurrence†	57 Cal. 4th 658	498
2015	DKN Holdings LLC v. Faerber†	61 Cal. 4th 813	491
2007	San Diego County Health & Human Services Agency v. Ben C.	150 P.3d 738	430
2012	People v. Correa†	54 Cal. 4th 331	422
2006	People v. Chatman	133 P.3d 534	395
2018	The Regents of the University of California v. Superior Court†	230 Cal. Rptr. 3d 415	393

Showing the 15 most-cited of 302 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 is Carol Ann Corrigan on?: Carol Ann Corrigan is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California.

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20 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).