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California Court of Appeal / Joined 2006 / Active

Douglas Paul Miller

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Douglas Paul Miller is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2006. He previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Riverside. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Superior Court of California, County of Riverside	–	–
2003	Superior Court of California, County of Riverside	–	–
2004	Superior Court of California, County of Riverside	–	–
2006	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Brigham Young University-Provo	Economics
Pepperdine University		1978

Judicial Record

In our data, Miller authored 34 published opinions for the court (2006–2013), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: People v. Ochoa (159 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. 14 of these were attributed to Miller 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
2009	People v. Ochoa	179 Cal. App. 4th 650	159
2012	City of Colton v. Singletary†	206 Cal. App. 4th 751	106
2012	Twenty-Nine Palms Enterprises Corp. v. Bardos†	210 Cal. App. 4th 1435	66
2011	Rosencrans v. Dover Images, Ltd.†	192 Cal. App. 4th 1072	64
2011	Martin v. Inland Empire Utilities Agency†	198 Cal. App. 4th 611	59
2009	Habitat Trust for Wildlife, Inc. v. City of Rancho Cucamonga	175 Cal. App. 4th 1306	57
2009	Inyo Citizens for Better Planning v. Inyo County Board of Supervisors	180 Cal. App. 4th 1	48
2011	People v. Arevalo-Iraheta†	193 Cal. App. 4th 1574	47
2011	Mansur v. Ford Motor Co.†	197 Cal. App. 4th 1365	45
2008	Villanueva v. City of Colton	73 Cal. Rptr. 3d 343	41
2007	Citizens for a Megaplex-Free Alameda v. City of Alameda	56 Cal. Rptr. 3d 728	40
2009	People v. Sweeney	175 Cal. App. 4th 210	36
2010	Fire Insurance Exchange v. Superior Court· Dissent†	181 Cal. App. 4th 388	31
2009	Sanchez v. State of California	179 Cal. App. 4th 467	29
2008	City of Corona v. Naulls	166 Cal. App. 4th 418	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 36 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 is Douglas Paul Miller on?: Douglas Paul Miller is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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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).