Superior Court of California, County of San Diego / Joined 1988 / Served to 2003

James B. Milliken

Judge, Superior Court of California, County of San Diego

James B. Milliken was a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego, who joined the court in 1988. He previously served on the Supreme Court of Kentucky and Kentucky Court of Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1988
Tenure: 1988–2003 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Supreme Court of Kentucky	–	–
1951	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–
1988	Superior Court of California, County of San Diego	–	–

Education

Centre College
Yale University
Centre College
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Milliken authored 565 published opinions for the court (1951–1974), plus 7 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Chambers v. Ideal Pure Milk Co. (49 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. 473 of these were attributed to Milliken 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
1952	Chambers v. Ideal Pure Milk Co.	245 S.W.2d 589	49
1963	Roark v. Alva Coal Corporation	371 S.W.2d 856	39
1966	Commonwealth v. Watkins	398 S.W.2d 698	37
1951	Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. v. Yates†	239 S.W.2d 953	33
1970	Rake v. Commonwealth	450 S.W.2d 527	30
1970	Robinson v. Commonwealth	459 S.W.2d 147	29
1970	Quarles v. Commonwealth	456 S.W.2d 693	29
1951	Ceresia v. Mitchell	242 S.W.2d 359	29
1963	Combs v. Matthews	364 S.W.2d 647	23
1965	Black v. Tichenor	396 S.W.2d 794	22
1962	Thomas v. Schumaker	360 S.W.2d 215	22
1962	Matthews v. Allen	360 S.W.2d 135	20
1954	Columbus Mining Co. v. Childers	265 S.W.2d 443	20
1966	Sloan v. Commonwealth, Department of Highways	405 S.W.2d 294	18
1959	Miller v. City of Louisville	321 S.W.2d 237	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 574 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 Superior Court of California, County of San Diego reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
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15 years on the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).