Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento / Joined 1998 / Served to 2001

John B. Lewis Jr.

Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento

John B. Lewis Jr. was a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento (51 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1998. He previously served on the Court of Appeals of North Carolina. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1998–2001 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–
1998	Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento	–	–

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Judicial Record

In our data, Lewis authored 587 published opinions for the court (1989–2006), plus 45 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Parsons v. Pantry, Inc. (152 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. 249 of these were attributed to Lewis 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
1997	Parsons v. Pantry, Inc.	485 S.E.2d 867	152
1995	In Re Nolen	453 S.E.2d 220	92
2000	Reid v. Ayers	531 S.E.2d 231	71
2000	Harris v. Ray Johnson Construction Co.	534 S.E.2d 653	70
2000	Kinsey v. Spann	533 S.E.2d 487	56
1996	Miller v. Brooks	472 S.E.2d 350	55
1992	Keel v. H & v. INC.	421 S.E.2d 362	53
2000	Brewer v. Brewer· Dissent†	533 S.E.2d 541	52
2000	Barrett v. Barrett	536 S.E.2d 642	50
1993	Freese v. Smith	428 S.E.2d 841	50
1989	Woolard v. North Carolina Department of Transportation	377 S.E.2d 267	50
1993	Lovell v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance	424 S.E.2d 181	49
1996	Horton v. New South Insurance Co.	468 S.E.2d 856	47
1999	Fran's Pecans, Inc. v. Greene	516 S.E.2d 647	43
1996	Sanders v. Broyhill Furniture Industries	478 S.E.2d 223	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 641 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 Sacramento reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was John B. Lewis Jr. on?: John B. Lewis Jr. was a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento.

Sources

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2 years on the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).