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 1929 / Served to 1958

Charles R. Barnard

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Charles R. Barnard was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1929. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1881–1968
Tenure: 1929–1958 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1929	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Barnard authored 1,589 published opinions for the court (1928–1958), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: White v. Davis (98 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. 539 of these were attributed to Barnard 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
1930	White v. Davis	284 P. 1086	98
1930	Crawford v. Foster	293 P. 841	90
1933	Howard v. Howard	22 P.2d 279	70
1943	Pacific Automobile Insurance v. Lewis	56 Cal. App. 2d 597	61
1933	Turner v. Standard Oil Co.	25 P.2d 988	57
1948	People v. Henry	86 Cal. App. 2d 785	55
1937	People v. Majado	22 Cal. App. 2d 323	49
1942	Shell Oil Co. v. Richter	52 Cal. App. 2d 164	48
1935	Spencer v. City of Calipatria	9 Cal. App. 2d 267	44
1948	People v. Doggett	83 Cal. App. 2d 405	42
1929	Moore v. Borgfeldt	273 P. 1114	41
1947	People v. Chavez	77 Cal. App. 2d 621	37
1935	Mitchell v. Board of Trustees	5 Cal. App. 2d 64	37
1933	Uttley v. City of Santa Ana	28 P.2d 377	37
1938	Ratcliff v. San Diego Baseball Club	27 Cal. App. 2d 733	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,590 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 Charles R. Barnard on?: Charles R. Barnard was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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28 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).