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California Court of Appeal / Joined 2002 / Served to 2018

Gene M. Gomes

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Gene M. Gomes was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 2002. They previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Fresno. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: 2002–2018 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Superior Court of California, County of Fresno	–	–
2002	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

California State University-Fresno		1969
University of the Pacific		1972

Judicial Record

In our data, Gomes authored 102 published opinions for the court (1982–2017). Most cited: Kings County Human Services Agency v. Ricardo L. (128 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. 33 of these were attributed to Gomes 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
2003	Kings County Human Services Agency v. Ricardo L.	135 Cal. Rptr. 2d 72	128
2002	Alexander v. Codemasters Group Limited	127 Cal. Rptr. 2d 145	121
2007	Powell v. Kleinman	59 Cal. Rptr. 3d 618	116
2009	People v. Gutierrez	174 Cal. App. 4th 515	107
2016	People v. Leon†	243 Cal. App. 4th 1003	86
2017	Aanderud v. Superior Court of Kern Cnty.†	221 Cal. Rptr. 3d 225	74
2007	People v. Ibarra	67 Cal. Rptr. 3d 871	73
2008	People v. Ybarra	166 Cal. App. 4th 1069	71
2006	People v. Bowers	52 Cal. Rptr. 3d 74	67
2002	People v. Padilla	126 Cal. Rptr. 2d 889	62
2004	People v. Johnson	14 Cal. Rptr. 3d 780	59
2007	People v. Hernández Ríos	60 Cal. Rptr. 3d 591	57
2010	Henderson v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.	187 Cal. App. 4th 215	55
2015	People v. Rojas†	237 Cal. App. 4th 1298	49
2006	Kern County Department of Human Services v. S.N.†	138 Cal. App. 4th 450	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 was Gene M. Gomes on?: Gene M. Gomes was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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15 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).