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 1986 / Served to 1999

John Zebrowski

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

John Zebrowski was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1986–1999 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1995	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Virginia-Main Campus
University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Zebrowski authored 52 published opinions for the court (1996–1999), plus 1 dissent and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Janken v. GM Hughes Electronics (272 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. 9 of these were attributed to Zebrowski 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
1996	Janken v. GM Hughes Electronics	46 Cal. App. 4th 55	272
1999	Winograd v. American Broadcasting Co.	80 Cal. Rptr. 2d 378	239
1998	Weddington Productions, Inc. v. Flick	60 Cal. App. 4th 793	225
1996	Roddenberry v. Roddenberry	44 Cal. App. 4th 634	207
1999	Sipple v. Foundation for National Progress· Concurrence†	83 Cal. Rptr. 2d 677	121
1999	Binder v. Aetna Life Insurance	89 Cal. Rptr. 2d 540	119
1996	Hedging Concepts, Inc. v. First Alliance Mortgage Co.	41 Cal. App. 4th 1410	108
1998	Cloud v. Northrop Grumman Corp.	79 Cal. Rptr. 2d 544	105
1996	People v. Gutierrez	48 Cal. App. 4th 1894	97
1999	In Re Marriage of Keech	89 Cal. Rptr. 2d 525	71
1998	Crosstalk Productions, Inc. v. Jacobson	76 Cal. Rptr. 2d 615	65
1998	Quan v. Truck Insurance Exchange	79 Cal. Rptr. 2d 134	63
1999	People v. Elize	84 Cal. Rptr. 2d 35	59
1998	People v. Rodriguez	77 Cal. Rptr. 2d 676	54
1998	Berg v. MTC Electronics Technologies Co.	61 Cal. App. 4th 349	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 57 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 Zebrowski on?: John Zebrowski 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).