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 2000 / Active

Eileen C. Moore

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Eileen C. Moore is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2000. She previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Orange. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2000 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Superior Court of California, County of Orange	–	–
2000	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of California-Irvine	cum laude	1975
Pepperdine University		1978
University of Virginia-Main Campus		2004

Judicial Record

In our data, Moore authored 202 published opinions for the court (2001–2019), plus 5 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Szetela v. Discover Bank (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. 110 of these were attributed to Moore 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
2002	Szetela v. Discover Bank	118 Cal. Rptr. 2d 862	159
2007	Berryman v. Merit Property Management, Inc.	62 Cal. Rptr. 3d 177	156
2019	People v. Mejia†	248 Cal. Rptr. 3d 819	129
2007	People v. Alexander L.	57 Cal. Rptr. 3d 226	123
2013	People v. Landau†	214 Cal. App. 4th 1	122
2006	In Re Marriage of Balcof	47 Cal. Rptr. 3d 183	113
2002	In Re Jennifer A.	127 Cal. Rptr. 2d 54	101
2009	People v. Em· Concurrence†	171 Cal. App. 4th 964	96
2014	Pope v. Babick†	229 Cal. App. 4th 1238	94
2001	Gamet v. Blanchard	111 Cal. Rptr. 2d 439	84
2002	Miller v. Superior Court	124 Cal. Rptr. 2d 591	82
2018	People v. Wolfe†	229 Cal. Rptr. 3d 414	76
2017	People v. Nicolas†	8 Cal. App. 5th 1165	74
2014	People v. Christensen†	229 Cal. App. 4th 781	73
2018	IIG Wireless, Inc. v. Yi†	231 Cal. Rptr. 3d 771	72

Showing the 15 most-cited of 209 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 Eileen C. Moore on?: Eileen C. Moore is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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25 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).