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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

California Court of Appeal / Joined 2014 / Active

Jon Burgess Streeter

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Jon Burgess Streeter is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Stanford University		1978
University of California-Berkeley		1981

Judicial Record

In our data, Streeter authored 50 published opinions for the court (2015–2019), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Thompson v. Asimos (279 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. 53 of these were attributed to Streeter 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
2016	Thompson v. Asimos†	6 Cal. App. 5th 970	279
2017	Cornell v. City & Cnty. of S.F.†	225 Cal. Rptr. 3d 356	197
2019	People v. Johnson†	247 Cal. Rptr. 3d 1	187
2018	T. J. v. Superior Court of City & Cnty. of S.F.†	230 Cal. Rptr. 3d 928	94
2015	Pinela v. Neiman Marcus Group, Inc.†	238 Cal. App. 4th 227	90
2016	People v. Brown†	245 Cal. App. 4th 140	69
2018	Area 51 Prods., Inc. v. City of Alameda†	229 Cal. Rptr. 3d 165	66
2018	People v. Simms†	233 Cal. Rptr. 3d 618	60
2016	Marin County Health & Human Services Department v. D.J.†	248 Cal. App. 4th 52	58
2017	Contra Costa Cnty. Children & Family Servs. Bureau v. David B. (In re David B.)†	219 Cal. Rptr. 3d 108	54
2015	People v. Vega†	236 Cal. App. 4th 484	52
2015	People v. Romeo†	240 Cal. App. 4th 931	49
2017	Ayala v. Dawson†	220 Cal. Rptr. 3d 917	47
2017	Mahan v. Charles W. Chan Ins. Agency, Inc.†	222 Cal. Rptr. 3d 360	43
2017	People v. Cervantes†	9 Cal. App. 5th 569	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 53 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 is Jon Burgess Streeter on?: Jon Burgess Streeter is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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11 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).