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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 2015 / Active

Jonathan Keith Renner

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Jonathan Keith Renner is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2015. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1970 · age 56
Tenure: Since 2015 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2015	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of California-Davis		1993
University of the Pacific		1996

Judicial Record

In our data, Renner authored 27 published opinions for the court (2015–2019). Most cited: People v. Jo (71 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. 27 of these were attributed to Renner 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
2017	People v. Jo†	224 Cal. Rptr. 3d 82	71
2018	Pac. Gas & Elec. Co. v. Superior Court of Sacramento Cnty.†	235 Cal. Rptr. 3d 228	53
2016	Sacramento County Department of Health & Human Services v. M.M.†	4 Cal. App. 5th 1214	44
2019	Ctr. for Biological Diversity v. Cal. Dep't of Conservation†	248 Cal. Rptr. 3d 449	29
2018	People v. I.F. (In re I.F.)†	229 Cal. Rptr. 3d 462	29
2016	California Public Records Research, Inc. v. County of Yolo†	4 Cal. App. 5th 150	28
2017	Harrington v. City of Davis†	224 Cal. Rptr. 3d 351	25
2015	People v. American Contractors Indemnity Co.†	238 Cal. App. 4th 1041	25
2019	People v. Accredited Sur. & Cas. Co.†	246 Cal. Rptr. 3d 663	23
2018	People v. Tom†	231 Cal. Rptr. 3d 350	20
2015	People v. Preston†	239 Cal. App. 4th 415	20
2015	Munoz v. City of Tracy†	238 Cal. App. 4th 354	18
2018	Centex Homes v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.†	228 Cal. Rptr. 3d 228	17
2019	Brown v. City of Sacramento†	249 Cal. Rptr. 3d 801	16
2018	Ponce v. Wells Fargo Bank†	230 Cal. Rptr. 3d 236	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 27 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 Jonathan Keith Renner on?: Jonathan Keith Renner 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).