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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1978 / Served to 2017

Conrad L. Rushing

Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal

Conrad L. Rushing was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1978–2017 · 39 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2002	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2003	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rushing authored 184 published opinions for the court (1984–2017), plus 4 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Serrano (533 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. 88 of these were attributed to Rushing 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
2012	People v. Serrano†	211 Cal. App. 4th 496	533
2007	Yield Dynamics, Inc. v. TEA Systems Corp.	66 Cal. Rptr. 3d 1	199
2007	HUONG QUE, INC. v. Luu	58 Cal. Rptr. 3d 527	195
2010	Wong v. Jing†	189 Cal. App. 4th 1354	192
2009	Gorman v. Tassajara Development Corp.	178 Cal. App. 4th 44	182
2008	Schmidlin v. City of Palo Alto	69 Cal. Rptr. 3d 365	169
2010	People v. E.O.†	188 Cal. App. 4th 1149	166
2007	People v. Ross	66 Cal. Rptr. 3d 438	158
2002	Santa Clara County Department of Family & Children's Services v. Samphan P.†	104 Cal. App. 4th 395	135
2008	Blickman Turkus v. Mf Downtown Sunnyvale	76 Cal. Rptr. 3d 325	133
2005	Oakland Raiders v. National Football League· Concurrence†	32 Cal. Rptr. 3d 266	130
2012	People v. Scott†	203 Cal. App. 4th 1303	128
2004	Reeves v. Safeway Stores, Inc.	16 Cal. Rptr. 3d 717	116
2008	Mamou v. Trendwest Resorts, Inc.	165 Cal. App. 4th 686	108
2011	Cross v. Cooper†	197 Cal. App. 4th 357	106

Showing the 15 most-cited of 192 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 Conrad L. Rushing on?: Conrad L. Rushing was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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39 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).