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 1968 / Served to 1986

Edwin F. Beach

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Edwin F. Beach was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1968–1986 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1973	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Beach authored 147 published opinions for the court (1974–1986), plus 7 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Bouvia v. Superior Court (74 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. 25 of these were attributed to Beach 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
1986	Bouvia v. Superior Court	179 Cal. App. 3d 1127	74
1979	McGee v. Weinberg	97 Cal. App. 3d 798	65
1981	Everfield v. State Compensation Insurance Fund	115 Cal. App. 3d 15	49
1976	Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyds of London	56 Cal. App. 3d 791	44
1983	Burnett v. National Enquirer, Inc.· Concurrence†	144 Cal. App. 3d 991	40
1978	Garcia v. Joseph Vince Co.	84 Cal. App. 3d 868	40
1984	Newfield v. Insurance Co. of the West	156 Cal. App. 3d 440	39
1980	Richard P. v. Vista Del Mar Child Care Service	106 Cal. App. 3d 860	39
1976	Scherer v. Mark	64 Cal. App. 3d 834	38
1980	Stephen K. v. RONI L.	105 Cal. App. 3d 640	35
1978	People v. Andrade	86 Cal. App. 3d 963	34
1978	Sayble v. Feinman	76 Cal. App. 3d 509	33
1981	Garman v. Magic Chef, Inc.	117 Cal. App. 3d 634	32
1982	State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Kohl· Dissent†	131 Cal. App. 3d 1031	30
1980	Rancho La Costa, Inc. v. Superior Court	106 Cal. App. 3d 646	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 158 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 Edwin F. Beach on?: Edwin F. Beach was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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18 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).