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

Ioana Petrou

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Ioana Petrou is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2018. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2018 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2018	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of California-Berkeley		1988
University of California-Berkeley		1993

Judicial Record

In our data, Petrou authored 5 published opinions for the court (2019). Most cited: SSL Landlord, LLC v. Cnty. of San Mateo (5 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. 5 of these were attributed to Petrou 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	SSL Landlord, LLC v. Cnty. of San Mateo†	246 Cal. Rptr. 3d 383	5
2019	City of S.F. v. Uber Techs., Inc.†	248 Cal. Rptr. 3d 273	4
2019	Hoag Mem'l Hosp. Presbyterian v. Kent†	248 Cal. Rptr. 3d 486	3
2019	Greiner v. Keller†	248 Cal. Rptr. 3d 444	3
2019	Point San Pedro Rd. Coal. v. Cnty. of Marin†	245 Cal. Rptr. 3d 580	0

Showing the 5 most-cited of 5 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 Ioana Petrou on?: Ioana Petrou is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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7 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).