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 2018 / Active

Helen Irene Bendix

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Helen Irene Bendix is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), serving since 2018. She previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: Since 2018 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles	–	–
2018	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Cornell University		1973
Yale University		1976

Judicial Record

In our data, Bendix authored 13 published opinions for the court (2018–2019). Most cited: People v. Munoz (70 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. 13 of these were attributed to Bendix 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
2019	People v. Munoz†	242 Cal. Rptr. 3d 314	70
2018	Doe v. Claremont McKenna Coll.†	236 Cal. Rptr. 3d 655	34
2019	L. A. Cnty. Dep't of Children & Family Servs. v. Pedro C. (In re L.C.)†	250 Cal. Rptr. 3d 487	30
2019	Symmonds v. Mahoney†	243 Cal. Rptr. 3d 445	27
2018	Cox v. Bonni†	241 Cal. Rptr. 3d 359	24
2018	Webster v. Claremont Yoga†	236 Cal. Rptr. 3d 802	20
2018	People v. Littlefield†	235 Cal. Rptr. 3d 195	10
2018	Timed Out LLC v. 13359 Corp.†	230 Cal. Rptr. 3d 842	10
2019	Diraffael v. Cal. Army Nat'l Guard†	247 Cal. Rptr. 3d 692	9
2018	Gordon B. v. Gomez†	231 Cal. Rptr. 3d 203	8
2018	Pont v. Pont†	242 Cal. Rptr. 3d 616	6
2019	Conger v. Cnty. of L. A.†	248 Cal. Rptr. 3d 394	3
2019	L. A. Cnty. Metro. Transp. Auth. v. Yum Yum Donut Shops, Inc.†	244 Cal. Rptr. 3d 201	3

Showing the 13 most-cited of 13 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 is Helen Irene Bendix on?: Helen Irene Bendix is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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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).