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 1978 / Served to 2000

Edward Jens Wallin

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Edward Jens Wallin was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1978–2000 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1982	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wallin authored 206 published opinions for the court (1983–2000), plus 8 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Orange County Social Services Agency v. Lorenzo M. (209 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. 49 of these were attributed to Wallin 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
1991	Orange County Social Services Agency v. Lorenzo M.	235 Cal. App. 3d 403	209
1997	People v. Kelley	52 Cal. App. 4th 568	110
1994	Golden West Baseball Co. v. City of Anaheim	25 Cal. App. 4th 11	105
1997	In Re Elizabeth M.	52 Cal. App. 4th 318	84
1992	Orange County Social Services Agency v. Roger S.	4 Cal. App. 4th 25	84
1996	Dunk v. Ford Motor Co.	48 Cal. App. 4th 1794	73
1990	Dodd v. Citizens Bank of Costa Mesa	222 Cal. App. 3d 1624	73
1996	Pinkerton's, Inc. v. Superior Court	49 Cal. App. 4th 1342	67
1991	In Re Melinda J.	234 Cal. App. 3d 1413	62
1991	Rosenblit v. Superior Court	231 Cal. App. 3d 1434	61
1998	People v. Aubrey	76 Cal. Rptr. 2d 378	59
1983	Hall v. Superior Court· Concurrence†	150 Cal. App. 3d 411	59
1996	McGill v. Regents of University of California	44 Cal. App. 4th 1776	53
1991	People v. Gamez· Concurrence†	235 Cal. App. 3d 957	53
1984	People v. Tung Thanh Le	154 Cal. App. 3d 1	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 233 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 Edward Jens Wallin on?: Edward Jens Wallin was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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22 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).