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 1961 / Served to 1971

Fred R. Pierce

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Fred R. Pierce was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1899–1983
Tenure: 1961–1971 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Pierce authored 300 published opinions for the court (1961–1974), plus 8 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Canifax v. Hercules Powder Co. (107 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. 40 of these were attributed to Pierce 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
1965	Canifax v. Hercules Powder Co.	237 Cal. App. 2d 44	107
1964	Love v. Wolf	226 Cal. App. 2d 378	106
1964	Morgan v. County of Yuba	230 Cal. App. 2d 938	73
1967	Sava v. Fuller	249 Cal. App. 2d 281	53
1969	Oakes v. EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co., Inc.	272 Cal. App. 2d 645	50
1965	People v. Beaugez	232 Cal. App. 2d 650	50
1964	Flournoy v. State of California	230 Cal. App. 2d 520	46
1967	Kenney v. Superior Court	255 Cal. App. 2d 106	45
1967	Orser v. George	252 Cal. App. 2d 660	45
1968	Zander v. Texaco, Inc.	259 Cal. App. 2d 793	41
1966	Klein v. Asgrow Seed Co.	246 Cal. App. 2d 87	41
1968	Virgil v. Superior Court	268 Cal. App. 2d 127	40
1964	People v. Claborn	224 Cal. App. 2d 38	39
1970	Dunsmuir Masonic Temple v. Superior Court	12 Cal. App. 3d 17	38
1965	People v. Andrews· Dissent†	234 Cal. App. 2d 69	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 313 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 Fred R. Pierce on?: Fred R. Pierce was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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9 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).