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 1973 / Served to 1989

Harry F. Brauer

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Harry F. Brauer was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1926 · age 100
Tenure: 1973–1989 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1984	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brauer authored 83 published opinions for the court (1985–1989), plus 1 dissent and 16 concurrences. Most cited: DeRose v. Carswell (107 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. 26 of these were attributed to Brauer 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
1987	DeRose v. Carswell	196 Cal. App. 3d 1011	107
1987	Mixon v. Fair Employment & Housing Commission	192 Cal. App. 3d 1306	80
1987	Gerdlund v. Electronic Dispensers International	190 Cal. App. 3d 263	76
1986	City of Carmel-By-The-Sea v. Board of Supervisors	183 Cal. App. 3d 229	70
1989	Santa Cruz County Human Resources v. Kelly R.· Concurrence†	211 Cal. App. 3d 1214	60
1985	West v. Johnson & Johnson Products, Inc.	174 Cal. App. 3d 831	51
1986	Robinson v. Hewlett-Packard Corp.	183 Cal. App. 3d 1108	47
1987	Pacific Valley Bank v. Schwenke	189 Cal. App. 3d 134	46
1986	Barnes-Hind, Inc. v. Superior Court	181 Cal. App. 3d 377	46
1989	Boyd v. Oscar Fisher Co.· Concurrence†	210 Cal. App. 3d 368	44
1987	In Re Marriage of Liu· Concurrence†	197 Cal. App. 3d 143	44
1987	Palmer v. Ted Stevens Honda, Inc.· Concurrence†	193 Cal. App. 3d 530	41
1988	People v. Rowland	206 Cal. App. 3d 119	39
1988	People v. Olivencia· Concurrence†	204 Cal. App. 3d 1391	38
1987	Fowler v. Varian Associates, Inc.	196 Cal. App. 3d 34	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 100 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 Harry F. Brauer on?: Harry F. Brauer was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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16 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).