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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 2018 / Active

Gail Ruderman Feuer

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Gail Ruderman Feuer is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2018. She previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1959 · age 67
Tenure: Since 2018 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles	–	–
2018	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

SUNY at Albany		1981
Harvard University		1984

Judicial Record

In our data, Feuer authored 11 published opinions for the court (2018–2019). Most cited: Davila v. Mejia (In re Davila) (94 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. 11 of these were attributed to Feuer 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
2018	Davila v. Mejia (In re Davila)†	239 Cal. Rptr. 3d 805	94
2018	People v. Jones†	237 Cal. Rptr. 3d 224	50
2018	People v. Superior Court of L. A. Cnty.†	238 Cal. Rptr. 3d 14	44
2019	Valdez v. Seidner-Miller, Inc.†	245 Cal. Rptr. 3d 268	35
2018	John Doe v. Univ. of S. Cal.†	241 Cal. Rptr. 3d 146	28
2019	A.J. Fistes Corp. v. GDL Best Contractors, Inc.†	251 Cal. Rptr. 3d 423	24
2019	People v. Shiga†	246 Cal. Rptr. 3d 198	16
2019	Moorer v. Noble L.A. Events, Inc.†	244 Cal. Rptr. 3d 219	16
2019	Marquez v. City of Long Beach†	244 Cal. Rptr. 3d 57	13
2018	People v. Minifie†	232 Cal. Rptr. 3d 442	6
2019	Grossman v. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified Sch. Dist.†	245 Cal. Rptr. 3d 205	3

Showing the 11 most-cited of 11 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 Gail Ruderman Feuer on?: Gail Ruderman Feuer is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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8 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).