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 1921 / Served to 1949

George A. Sturtevant

Justice, California Court of Appeal

George A. Sturtevant was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1921. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1921–1949 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1921	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sturtevant authored 1,007 published opinions for the court (1918–1945), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Sommer v. Martin (52 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. 159 of these were attributed to Sturtevant 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
1921	Sommer v. Martin	204 P. 33	52
1934	Williams v. Bridges†	140 Cal. App. 537	49
1918	Tremper v. Tremper	177 P. 868	46
1922	Keena v. United RailRoads of San Francisco	207 P. 35	37
1930	Ex Parte Weiler	289 P. 645	30
1939	Cunha v. Anglo California National Bank	34 Cal. App. 2d 383	27
1936	Fraguglia v. Sala	17 Cal. App. 2d 738	27
1931	Ambrose v. Allen	298 P. 169	27
1941	Moffatt v. Tight	44 Cal. App. 2d 643	25
1922	People v. Seiler	207 P. 396	25
1924	Abbott v. Superior Court	232 P. 154	24
1921	Dean v. Powell Undertaking Co.	203 P. 1015	24
1936	Woods-Drury, Inc. v. Superior Court	18 Cal. App. 2d 340	23
1936	Ames v. Employers Casualty Co.	16 Cal. App. 2d 255	23
1932	In Re Sekuguchi	11 P.2d 655	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,009 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 A. Sturtevant on?: George A. Sturtevant was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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28 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).