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 1970 / Served to 1989

John H. Hews

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

John H. Hews was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1970–1989 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1987	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hews authored 12 published opinions for the court (1987–1988). Most cited: Hart v. National Mortgage & Land Co. (57 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. 12 of these were attributed to Hews 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
1987	Hart v. National Mortgage & Land Co.†	189 Cal. App. 3d 1420	57
1987	City of Grand Terrace v. Superior Court†	192 Cal. App. 3d 1251	39
1988	Harshbarger v. City of Colton†	197 Cal. App. 3d 1335	26
1988	People v. McNulty†	202 Cal. App. 3d 624	24
1988	Schell v. Southern California Edison Co.†	204 Cal. App. 3d 1039	18
1988	Danielson v. ITT Industrial Credit Co.†	199 Cal. App. 3d 645	18
1987	San Bernardino City Unified School District v. Superior Court†	190 Cal. App. 3d 233	14
1988	Gallo v. Getz†	205 Cal. App. 3d 329	8
1987	Inland Counties Regional Center, Inc. v. Office of Administrative Hearings†	193 Cal. App. 3d 700	5
1987	Grimm v. Thayer†	188 Cal. App. 3d 866	4
1988	People v. Johnson†	205 Cal. App. 3d 755	3
1987	People v. Jenkins†	190 Cal. App. 3d 200	1

Showing the 12 most-cited of 12 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 H. Hews on?: John H. Hews was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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18 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).