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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1996 / Served to 1998

Elizabeth A. Baron

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Elizabeth A. Baron was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1996–1998 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Baron authored 37 published opinions for the court (1996–1998), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: In Re Marriage of Drake (141 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. 5 of these were attributed to Baron 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
1997	In Re Marriage of Drake	53 Cal. App. 4th 1139	141
1996	Magpali v. Farmers Group, Inc.	48 Cal. App. 4th 471	87
1997	Yeap v. Leake	60 Cal. App. 4th 591	54
1997	Wellpoint Health Networks, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County	59 Cal. App. 4th 110	54
1996	Fleet v. CBS, INC.	50 Cal. App. 4th 1911	46
1996	People v. Superior Court (Myers)	50 Cal. App. 4th 826	44
1996	American International Bank v. Fidelity & Deposit Co.	49 Cal. App. 4th 1558	37
1997	State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Dep't of Motor Vehicles	53 Cal. App. 4th 1076	33
1997	Cravens v. State Board of Equalization	52 Cal. App. 4th 253	30
1997	Parage v. Couedel	60 Cal. App. 4th 1037	29
1997	Zelda, Inc. v. Northland Insurance	56 Cal. App. 4th 1252	24
1996	Siegel v. Fidelity National Title Insurance	46 Cal. App. 4th 1181	24
1997	Diediker v. Peelle Financial Corp.	60 Cal. App. 4th 288	21
1997	Steinfeld v. Foote-Goldman Proctologic Med. Group, Inc.	60 Cal. App. 4th 13	21
1997	Sistare-Meyer v. Young Men's Christian Ass'n of Metropolitan Los Angeles	58 Cal. App. 4th 10	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 39 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 Elizabeth A. Baron on?: Elizabeth A. Baron was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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2 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).