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 1963 / Served to 1985

Gerald Brown

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Gerald Brown was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1963. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1915–2005
Tenure: 1963–1985 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1963	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1965	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 453 published opinions for the court (1962–1986). Most cited: People v. Preslie (114 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. 53 of these were attributed to Brown 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
1977	People v. Preslie	70 Cal. App. 3d 486	114
1979	People v. Frederick G.	96 Cal. App. 3d 353	111
1983	Eichman v. Fotomat Corp.	147 Cal. App. 3d 1170	103
1977	Hogya v. Superior Court	75 Cal. App. 3d 122	96
1980	Wagner v. Benson	101 Cal. App. 3d 27	82
1985	People v. Parrish	170 Cal. App. 3d 336	74
1980	Giddings v. Industrial Indemnity Co.	112 Cal. App. 3d 213	73
1982	Ashland Chemical Co. v. Provence	129 Cal. App. 3d 790	65
1980	People v. Lawson	107 Cal. App. 3d 748	52
1981	People v. Bejarano	114 Cal. App. 3d 693	51
1963	Crane v. Sears Roebuck & Co.	218 Cal. App. 2d 855	51
1963	Sneed v. County of Riverside	218 Cal. App. 2d 205	49
1979	In Re Marriage of Ben-Yehoshua	91 Cal. App. 3d 259	47
1979	Evartt v. Superior Court	89 Cal. App. 3d 795	46
1981	People v. Olguin	119 Cal. App. 3d 39	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 453 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 Gerald Brown on?: Gerald Brown was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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22 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).