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 1961 / Served to 1970

James R. Agee

Justice, California Court of Appeal

James R. Agee was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1961–1970 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Agee authored 274 published opinions for the court (1951–1970). Most cited: Ent v. Department of Motor Vehicles (43 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. 36 of these were attributed to Agee 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
1968	Ent v. Department of Motor Vehicles	265 Cal. App. 2d 936	43
1968	Hayward v. Watsonville Register-Pajaronian and Sun	265 Cal. App. 2d 255	35
1970	People v. Wesley	10 Cal. App. 3d 902	34
1965	Neely v. California State Personnel Board	237 Cal. App. 2d 487	31
1966	Blackfield v. Underwriters at Lloyd's, London	245 Cal. App. 2d 271	29
1962	Haseltine v. Haseltine	203 Cal. App. 2d 48	29
1963	Walsh v. Hooker & Fay	212 Cal. App. 2d 450	28
1956	Berger v. Southern Pacific Co.	144 Cal. App. 2d 1	28
1967	Calhoun v. State Farm Mutual Auto. Ins. Co.	254 Cal. App. 2d 407	26
1951	DiPasqua v. California Western States Life Insurance	106 Cal. App. 2d 281	23
1967	Allen v. Powell	248 Cal. App. 2d 502	22
1964	Allen v. Enomoto	228 Cal. App. 2d 798	22
1961	Johnson v. Casetta	197 Cal. App. 2d 272	22
1964	People v. Gomez	229 Cal. App. 2d 781	21
1963	Grove v. Grove Valve & Regulator Co.	213 Cal. App. 2d 646	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 274 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 James R. Agee on?: James R. Agee was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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9 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).