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 1975 / Served to 1993

Howard B. Wiener

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Howard B. Wiener was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1931 · age 95
Tenure: 1975–1993 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1978	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wiener authored 367 published opinions for the court (1977–1993), plus 19 dissents and 29 concurrences. Most cited: Love v. Fire Insurance Exchange (341 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. 87 of these were attributed to Wiener 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
1990	Love v. Fire Insurance Exchange· Concurrence†	221 Cal. App. 3d 1136	341
1988	People v. Bowker	203 Cal. App. 3d 385	271
1982	A & M PRODUCE CO. v. FMC Corp.	135 Cal. App. 3d 473	259
1992	Mesecher v. County of San Diego	9 Cal. App. 4th 1677	91
1979	Delos v. Farmers Insurance Group	93 Cal. App. 3d 642	86
1984	Devlin v. Kearny Mesa AMC/Jeep/Renault, Inc.	155 Cal. App. 3d 381	81
1984	Rich & Whillock, Inc. v. Ashton Development, Inc.	157 Cal. App. 3d 1154	80
1983	William H. Raley Co. v. Superior Court	149 Cal. App. 3d 1042	79
1991	Opsal v. United Services Automobile Ass'n	2 Cal. App. 4th 1197	77
1980	People v. White	101 Cal. App. 3d 161	75
1992	People v. Evers	10 Cal. App. 4th 588	72
1979	United Business Commission v. City of San Diego	91 Cal. App. 3d 156	72
1990	Saunders v. Cariss	224 Cal. App. 3d 905	70
1985	Jaffe v. Cranford Insurance	168 Cal. App. 3d 930	69
1992	People v. Perez	4 Cal. App. 4th 893	68

Showing the 15 most-cited of 415 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 Howard B. Wiener on?: Howard B. Wiener was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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18 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).