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 1974 / Served to 1981

George E. Paras

Justice, California Court of Appeal

George E. Paras was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–2005
Tenure: 1974–1981 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Paras authored 143 published opinions for the court (1974–1981), plus 5 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Twyford v. Twyford (62 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. 27 of these were attributed to Paras 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
1976	Twyford v. Twyford	63 Cal. App. 3d 916	62
1977	Way v. Superior Court of San Diego Cty.	74 Cal. App. 3d 165	59
1979	Transit Casualty Co. v. Spink Corp.	94 Cal. App. 3d 124	48
1974	People v. Orr	43 Cal. App. 3d 666	48
1979	O'Shea v. Claude C. Wood Co.· Concurrence†	97 Cal. App. 3d 903	45
1975	People v. Earnest	53 Cal. App. 3d 734	43
1976	State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Camara	63 Cal. App. 3d 48	40
1979	In Re Fred J.	89 Cal. App. 3d 168	39
1978	Franchise Tax Board v. Cory	80 Cal. App. 3d 772	38
1976	Cook v. Craig	55 Cal. App. 3d 773	38
1978	Stone v. Bach	80 Cal. App. 3d 442	34
1976	Wilson v. State Personnel Board	58 Cal. App. 3d 865	34
1978	Wagner v. State of California	86 Cal. App. 3d 922	33
1979	People v. Arceo	95 Cal. App. 3d 117	32
1978	People v. Barajas	81 Cal. App. 3d 999	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 154 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 George E. Paras on?: George E. Paras was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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7 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).