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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1965 / Served to 1987

Edwin J. Regan

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Edwin J. Regan was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–1996
Tenure: 1965–1987 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Regan authored 227 published opinions for the court (1965–1987), plus 13 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Ehrler v. Ehrler (102 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. 37 of these were attributed to Regan 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
1981	Ehrler v. Ehrler	126 Cal. App. 3d 147	102
1984	People v. Cicero· Dissent†	157 Cal. App. 3d 465	91
1974	Black Panther Party v. Kehoe· Dissent†	42 Cal. App. 3d 645	73
1978	People v. Craig	86 Cal. App. 3d 905	64
1985	Sagadin v. Ripper· Dissent†	175 Cal. App. 3d 1141	58
1977	Byram v. Superior Ct. of Sacramento Cty.	74 Cal. App. 3d 648	55
1969	Mercer v. Donaldson	269 Cal. App. 2d 509	52
1973	California State Employees'assn. v. St. of Calif.	32 Cal. App. 3d 103	48
1984	California Teachers Assn. v. Cory· Dissent†	155 Cal. App. 3d 494	45
1970	Sacramento & San Joaquin Drainage Disrict v. Goehring	13 Cal. App. 3d 58	45
1982	Bos Material Handling, Inc. v. Crown Controls Corp.	137 Cal. App. 3d 99	42
1975	People v. Atkins	53 Cal. App. 3d 348	41
1978	In Re Christopher B.	82 Cal. App. 3d 608	40
1968	Virgil v. Superior Court· Dissent†	268 Cal. App. 2d 127	40
1984	Harris v. Smith	157 Cal. App. 3d 100	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 245 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 J. Regan on?: Edwin J. Regan 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).