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 1968 / Served to 1972

John F. Aiso

Justice, California Court of Appeal

John F. Aiso was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1968–1972 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Aiso authored 106 published opinions for the court (1968–1972), plus 3 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Carmichael v. Reitz (127 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. 16 of these were attributed to Aiso 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
1971	Carmichael v. Reitz	17 Cal. App. 3d 958	127
1968	Oakes v. McCarthy Co.	267 Cal. App. 2d 231	109
1972	Zumbrun v. University of Southern California	25 Cal. App. 3d 1	97
1972	Kasel v. Remington Arms Co.· Concurrence†	24 Cal. App. 3d 711	96
1970	People v. Venegas	10 Cal. App. 3d 814	96
1972	People v. Norwood	26 Cal. App. 3d 148	60
1968	People v. Schroeder	264 Cal. App. 2d 217	57
1970	Johnston v. Security Insurance	6 Cal. App. 3d 839	54
1972	Lovret v. Seyfarth	22 Cal. App. 3d 841	53
1969	Lesser Towers, Inc. v. Roscoe-Ajax Construction Co.	271 Cal. App. 2d 675	50
1972	Anthony v. Kelsey-Hayes Co.	25 Cal. App. 3d 442	48
1971	Taylor v. Bell	21 Cal. App. 3d 1002	37
1970	People v. House	12 Cal. App. 3d 756	35
1969	Transit Ads, Inc. v. Tanner Motor Livery, Ltd.	270 Cal. App. 2d 275	35
1972	Gayle v. Hamm	25 Cal. App. 3d 250	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 116 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 John F. Aiso on?: John F. Aiso was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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4 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).