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 1979 / Served to 1982

Joseph R. Grodin

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Joseph R. Grodin was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1979–1982 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Grodin authored 89 published opinions for the court (1979–1988), plus 2 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Pugh v. See's Candies, Inc. (263 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. 22 of these were attributed to Grodin 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
1981	Pugh v. See's Candies, Inc.	116 Cal. App. 3d 311	263
1982	Hentzel v. Singer Co.	138 Cal. App. 3d 290	109
1988	Pugh v. See's Candies, Inc.	203 Cal. App. 3d 743	66
1982	Barnhouse v. City of Pinole	133 Cal. App. 3d 171	58
1979	Warden v. Kahn	99 Cal. App. 3d 805	58
1980	People v. St. Andrew	101 Cal. App. 3d 450	57
1981	People v. Phillips	122 Cal. App. 3d 69	54
1980	Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board	104 Cal. App. 3d 528	51
1982	Ricard v. Pacific Indemnity Co.	132 Cal. App. 3d 886	44
1982	People v. Buford	132 Cal. App. 3d 288	39
1982	Allen v. Sundean	137 Cal. App. 3d 216	35
1981	Jones v. Superior Court	119 Cal. App. 3d 534	35
1982	People v. Chambers	136 Cal. App. 3d 444	32
1980	Rodrigues v. Keller	113 Cal. App. 3d 838	31
1980	Institute of Athletic Motivation v. University of Illinois	114 Cal. App. 3d 1	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 104 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 R. Grodin on?: Joseph R. Grodin was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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3 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).