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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1968 / Served to 1977

Gerold C. Dunn

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Gerold C. Dunn was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1968–1977 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dunn authored 149 published opinions for the court (1968–1998), plus 4 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Windsor Mills, Inc. v. Collins & Aikman Corp. (101 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 Dunn 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
1972	Windsor Mills, Inc. v. Collins & Aikman Corp.	25 Cal. App. 3d 987	101
1975	Weiss v. Marcus	51 Cal. App. 3d 590	90
1975	Gold v. Los Angeles Democratic League	49 Cal. App. 3d 365	62
1976	People v. Gibson· Concurrence†	56 Cal. App. 3d 119	58
1973	Friendly Village Community Ass'n v. Silva & Hill Construction Co.	31 Cal. App. 3d 220	57
1972	McLellan v. McLellan	23 Cal. App. 3d 343	51
1975	Leaf v. Phil Rauch, Inc.	47 Cal. App. 3d 371	46
1976	People v. Henderson· Dissent†	58 Cal. App. 3d 349	45
1976	People v. Reyes· Concurrence†	62 Cal. App. 3d 53	43
1970	McCown v. Spencer	8 Cal. App. 3d 216	42
1969	Charles C. Chapman Building Co. v. California Mart	2 Cal. App. 3d 846	40
1973	Van Nuis v. Los Angeles Soap Co.	36 Cal. App. 3d 222	38
1969	People v. Harrison	1 Cal. App. 3d 115	38
1971	Yanchor v. Kagan	22 Cal. App. 3d 544	35
1969	Cherry v. Home Savings & Loan Assn.	276 Cal. App. 2d 574	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 158 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 Gerold C. Dunn on?: Gerold C. Dunn was a 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).