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 1972 / Served to 1989

Joseph B. Campbell

Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal

Joseph B. Campbell was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1972–1989 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1986	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Campbell authored 24 published opinions for the court (1980–1989), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: People v. Aris (67 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. 25 of these were attributed to Campbell 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
1989	People v. Aris†	215 Cal. App. 3d 1178	67
1989	City of Coachella v. Riverside County Airport Land Use Commission†	210 Cal. App. 3d 1277	45
1988	Rojes v. Riverside General Hospital†	203 Cal. App. 3d 1151	44
1987	Culbertson v. RD Werner Co., Inc.†	190 Cal. App. 3d 704	44
1987	Brady v. Elixir Industries†	196 Cal. App. 3d 1299	39
1986	Stalnaker v. Boeing Co.†	186 Cal. App. 3d 1291	26
1989	Bunch v. Coachella Valley Water District†	214 Cal. App. 3d 203	16
1986	Western Municipal Water District v. Superior Court†	187 Cal. App. 3d 1104	14
1989	People v. Ratekin†	212 Cal. App. 3d 1165	11
1988	San Bernardino County Flood Control District v. Grabowski†	205 Cal. App. 3d 885	11
1989	Redevelopment Agency v. Metropolitan Theatres Corp.†	215 Cal. App. 3d 808	10
1988	People v. Lopez†	198 Cal. App. 3d 135	10
1988	People v. Lara†	206 Cal. App. 3d 1297	9
1987	Bianchi v. Westfield Insurance†	191 Cal. App. 3d 287	8
1989	People v. Paulsen†	217 Cal. App. 3d 1420	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 25 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 Joseph B. Campbell on?: Joseph B. Campbell was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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17 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).