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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 2006 / Served to 2018

Ignazio John Ruvolo

Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal

Ignazio John Ruvolo was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2006–2018 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ruvolo authored 159 published opinions for the court (1997–2018), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: McBride v. Boughton (209 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. 55 of these were attributed to Ruvolo 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
2004	McBride v. Boughton	20 Cal. Rptr. 3d 115	209
2001	America Online, Inc. v. Superior Court	108 Cal. Rptr. 2d 699	159
2003	People v. Burbine	131 Cal. Rptr. 2d 628	147
2004	In Re Isayah C.	13 Cal. Rptr. 3d 198	140
2015	Serafin v. Balco Properties Ltd., LLC†	235 Cal. App. 4th 165	127
2000	Juarez v. Boy Scouts of America, Inc.	97 Cal. Rptr. 2d 12	110
2009	Cabral v. Martins	177 Cal. App. 4th 471	105
2004	Munoz v. City of Union City	16 Cal. Rptr. 3d 521	105
1997	Morlife, Inc. v. Perry	56 Cal. App. 4th 1514	105
2000	People v. Brown	92 Cal. Rptr. 2d 433	103
1999	Adams v. City of Fremont	80 Cal. Rptr. 2d 196	103
2005	Robertson v. Health Net of California, Inc.	34 Cal. Rptr. 3d 547	97
2008	DeJung v. Superior Court	169 Cal. App. 4th 533	95
2005	Thomas v. Quintero	24 Cal. Rptr. 3d 619	95
2010	Communities for a Better Environment v. City of Richmond	184 Cal. App. 4th 70	82

Showing the 15 most-cited of 162 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 Ignazio John Ruvolo on?: Ignazio John Ruvolo was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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12 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).