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 1936 / Served to 1955

Douglas L. Edmonds

Justice, Supreme Court of California

Douglas L. Edmonds was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California, who joined the court in 1936. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1962
Tenure: 1936–1955 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1936	Supreme Court of California	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Edmonds authored 443 published opinions for the court (1936–1955), plus 62 dissents and 68 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Wells (362 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. 178 of these were attributed to Edmonds 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
1949	People v. Wells· Dissent†	33 Cal. 2d 330	362
1945	People v. Thomas· Concurrence†	25 Cal. 2d 880	313
1942	Estate of Platt	21 Cal. 2d 343	308
1944	Teel v. Gaskill· Concurrence†	25 Cal. 2d 520	247
1954	In Re Williamson	43 Cal. 2d 651	244
1944	People v. Albertson· Dissent†	23 Cal. 2d 550	233
1943	People v. Ricciardi· Concurrence†	23 Cal. 2d 390	216
1943	People v. Huston	21 Cal. 2d 690	216
1953	Gudelj v. Gudelj	41 Cal. 2d 202	208
1942	In Re Bell· Concurrence†	19 Cal. 2d 488	207
1943	Bacich v. Board of Control· Concurrence†	23 Cal. 2d 343	192
1949	People v. Adamson· Concurrence†	34 Cal. 2d 320	191
1950	Lorenson v. Superior Court	35 Cal. 2d 49	183
1943	Estate of Hanley v. Hanley	23 Cal. 2d 120	180
1947	Satterlee v. Orange Glenn School District	29 Cal. 2d 581	175

Showing the 15 most-cited of 577 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 Douglas L. Edmonds on?: Douglas L. Edmonds was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California.

Sources

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19 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).