How do judges of the Supreme Court of California reach the bench?

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

Supreme Court of California / Joined 1918 / Served to 1924

Curtis Dwight Wilbur

Justice, Supreme Court of California

Curtis Dwight Wilbur was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California (6 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1918. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1867–1954
Tenure: 1918–1924 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1918	Supreme Court of California	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wilbur authored 13 published opinions for the court (1918–1923). Most cited: Stewart v. Cal. Med. Missionary & Benevolent Ass'n (9 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. 13 of these were attributed to Wilbur 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
1918	Stewart v. Cal. Med. Missionary & Benevolent Ass'n†	178 Cal. 418	9
1923	Grinbaum v. Superior Court†	192 Cal. 783	1
1918	Hebrew Home for Aged Disabled v. Friedman†	178 Cal. 27	1
1923	Grinbaum v. Superior Court†	192 Cal. 783	0
1923	Keegan v. Craig†	192 Cal. 494	0
1923	Crabtree v. Houghton†	191 Cal. 33	0
1923	Crabtree v. Houghton†	191 Cal. 33	0
1923	Mason v. Mason†	190 Cal. 439	0
1923	Mason v. Mason†	190 Cal. 439	0
1920	Huntington v. Donovan†	183 Cal. 746	0
1919	Holcomb v. Breitkreutz†	180 Cal. 17	0
1919	Holcomb v. Breitkreutz†	180 Cal. 17	0
1918	Chambers v. Princeton Univ.†	178 Cal. 116	0

Showing the 13 most-cited of 13 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 was Curtis Dwight Wilbur on?: Curtis Dwight Wilbur was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California.

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6 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).