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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 2010 / Active

Elizabeth Annette Grimes

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Elizabeth Annette Grimes is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

The University of Texas at Austin
Stanford University		1980

Judicial Record

In our data, Grimes authored 95 published opinions for the court (2004–2019), plus 7 dissents. Most cited: People v. Gonzalez (145 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. 86 of these were attributed to Grimes 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
2005	People v. Gonzalez	25 Cal. Rptr. 3d 124	145
2010	Bozzi v. NORDSTROM, INC.	186 Cal. App. 4th 755	125
2004	Dream Theater, Inc. v. Dream Theater	21 Cal. Rptr. 3d 322	111
2011	Hamilton v. Greenwich Investors XXVI, LLC†	195 Cal. App. 4th 1602	90
2016	People v. Rouse†	245 Cal. App. 4th 292	85
2011	Coretronic Corp. v. Cozen O'Connor†	192 Cal. App. 4th 1381	82
2011	Freeman v. Sullivant†	192 Cal. App. 4th 523	76
2011	People v. Arceo†	195 Cal. App. 4th 556	71
2013	Bender v. County of Los Angeles†	217 Cal. App. 4th 968	70
2010	Thompson v. City of Monrovia	186 Cal. App. 4th 860	68
2004	CALOROSO v. Hathaway	19 Cal. Rptr. 3d 254	50
2011	Shugart v. Regents of University of California†	199 Cal. App. 4th 499	49
2012	Elijahjuan v. Superior Court· Dissent†	210 Cal. App. 4th 15	48
2015	Ironridge Global IV, Ltd. v. ScripsAmerica, Inc.†	238 Cal. App. 4th 259	45
2012	Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services v. V.M.†	206 Cal. App. 4th 375	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 102 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 Elizabeth Annette Grimes on?: Elizabeth Annette Grimes is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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16 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).