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 1960 / Served to 1971

Daniel R. Shoemaker

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Daniel R. Shoemaker was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1960–1971 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Shoemaker authored 259 published opinions for the court (1954–1971), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Hughes v. Potomac Insurance (73 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. 38 of these were attributed to Shoemaker 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
1962	Hughes v. Potomac Insurance	199 Cal. App. 2d 239	73
1964	Anderson v. City Council	229 Cal. App. 2d 79	51
1962	American Can Co. v. City & County of San Francisco	202 Cal. App. 2d 520	46
1961	Theobald v. Byers	193 Cal. App. 2d 147	46
1965	Martino v. Concord Community Hospital District	233 Cal. App. 2d 51	45
1968	Wetherbee v. United Insurance Co. of America	265 Cal. App. 2d 921	41
1963	Ehman v. Moore	221 Cal. App. 2d 460	41
1967	People v. Dahlke	257 Cal. App. 2d 82	33
1965	People v. Saldana	233 Cal. App. 2d 24	29
1961	M. Miller Co. v. Dames & Moore	198 Cal. App. 2d 305	27
1961	Mercado v. Hoefler	190 Cal. App. 2d 12	26
1967	People v. Samuels	250 Cal. App. 2d 501	25
1963	Campidonica v. Transport Indemnity Co.	217 Cal. App. 2d 403	24
1960	A & S Air Conditioning v. John J. Moore Co.	184 Cal. App. 2d 617	24
1963	Dwan v. Dixon	216 Cal. App. 2d 260	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 263 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 R. Shoemaker on?: Daniel R. Shoemaker was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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11 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).