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 2003 / Served to 2016

Jeffrey King

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Jeffrey King was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1950 · age 76
Tenure: 2003–2016 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Redlands		1972
University of the Pacific		1976

Judicial Record

In our data, King authored 68 published opinions for the court (2003–2016), plus 3 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Laabs v. City of Victorville (217 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. 39 of these were attributed to King 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
2008	Laabs v. City of Victorville	163 Cal. App. 4th 1242	217
2013	The People v. Hernandez†	217 Cal. App. 4th 559	160
2011	Behr v. Redmond†	193 Cal. App. 4th 517	146
2009	Mexia v. Rinker Boat Co., Inc.	174 Cal. App. 4th 1297	134
2007	Ermoian v. Desert Hospital	61 Cal. Rptr. 3d 754	118
2014	Ruiz v. Moss Bros. Auto Group†	232 Cal. App. 4th 836	114
2013	People v. Boatman†	221 Cal. App. 4th 1253	107
2012	Rialto Citizens for Responsible Growth v. City of Rialto†	208 Cal. App. 4th 899	94
2013	People v. Lawson†	215 Cal. App. 4th 108	71
2005	People v. Overman	24 Cal. Rptr. 3d 798	63
2011	Tuszynska v. Cunningham†	199 Cal. App. 4th 257	62
2006	Jenkins v. County of Riverside	41 Cal. Rptr. 3d 686	61
2004	People v. Zambrano	21 Cal. Rptr. 3d 160	60
2011	Erikson v. Nunnink†	191 Cal. App. 4th 826	58
2016	Highland Springs Conference & Training Center v. City of Banning†	244 Cal. App. 4th 267	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 74 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 Jeffrey King on?: Jeffrey King was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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13 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).