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 1972 / Served to 1995

Charles W. Froehlich Jr.

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Charles W. Froehlich Jr. was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1972. They previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1928–2017
Tenure: 1972–1995 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Superior Court of California, County of San Diego	–	–
1988	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1972	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1988	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Froehlich authored 148 published opinions for the court (1981–1997), plus 4 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Winet v. Price (353 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. 22 of these were attributed to Froehlich 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
1992	Winet v. Price	4 Cal. App. 4th 1159	353
1990	Love v. Fire Insurance Exchange	221 Cal. App. 3d 1136	341
1994	Tomaselli v. Transamerica Insurance	25 Cal. App. 4th 1269	169
1993	In Re Crystal J.	12 Cal. App. 4th 407	146
1992	Racine & Laramie, Ltd. v. Department of Parks & Recreation	11 Cal. App. 4th 1026	139
1993	North Coast Business Park v. Nielsen Construction Co.	17 Cal. App. 4th 22	135
1992	American Drug Stores, Inc. v. Stroh	10 Cal. App. 4th 1446	108
1993	People v. Fares	16 Cal. App. 4th 954	103
1992	In Re Arturo A.	8 Cal. App. 4th 229	87
1994	People v. Mustafaa	22 Cal. App. 4th 1305	83
1989	San Diego County Department of Social Services v. Kelly D.	215 Cal. App. 3d 889	82
1990	People v. Carlos M.	220 Cal. App. 3d 372	79
1994	Titan Corp. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.	22 Cal. App. 4th 457	78
1992	In Re Jennifer J.	8 Cal. App. 4th 1080	76
1990	Rudd v. California Casualty General Insurance	219 Cal. App. 3d 948	69

Showing the 15 most-cited of 157 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 W. Froehlich Jr. on?: Charles W. Froehlich Jr. was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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23 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).