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 1983 / Served to 2003

Daniel J. Kremer

Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal

Daniel J. Kremer was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–2003 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1985	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1985	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2003	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kremer authored 231 published opinions for the court (1985–2003), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Casey D. (692 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. 39 of these were attributed to Kremer 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
1999	In Re Casey D.	82 Cal. Rptr. 2d 426	692
1991	In Re Misako R.	2 Cal. App. 4th 538	328
1999	South Bay Chevrolet v. General Motors Acceptance Corp.	85 Cal. Rptr. 2d 301	175
1993	In Re Jennifer R.	14 Cal. App. 4th 704	130
2002	People v. Cochran	126 Cal. Rptr. 2d 416	125
1995	In Re Marquis D.	38 Cal. App. 4th 1813	116
1993	Caro v. Procter & Gamble Co.	18 Cal. App. 4th 644	114
1995	People v. Hung Hao Nguyen	40 Cal. App. 4th 28	109
2003	People ex rel. Lockyer v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.†	107 Cal. App. 4th 516	101
1992	People v. Chlad	6 Cal. App. 4th 1719	100
2002	In Re SO	126 Cal. Rptr. 2d 554	98
2001	California Medical Ass'n v. Aetna U.S. Healthcare of California, Inc.	114 Cal. Rptr. 2d 109	94
1987	Clothesrigger, Inc. v. GTE Corp.	191 Cal. App. 3d 605	76
1992	In Re Tania S.	5 Cal. App. 4th 728	73
1996	Frank and Freedus v. Allstate Ins. Co.	45 Cal. App. 4th 461	71

Showing the 15 most-cited of 235 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 Daniel J. Kremer on?: Daniel J. Kremer was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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20 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).