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California Court of Appeal / Joined 1994 / Active

Judith Lynnette Ondrasik Haller

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Judith Lynnette Ondrasik Haller is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 1994. She previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: Since 1994 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Superior Court of California, County of San Diego	–	–
1994	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of California-Los Angeles	summa cum laude	1967
San Diego State University		1971
California Western School of Law		1975

Judicial Record

In our data, Haller authored 229 published opinions for the court (1994–2019), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Justice P. (256 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. 102 of these were attributed to Haller 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
2004	In Re Justice P.	19 Cal. Rptr. 3d 801	256
2019	People v. Gutierrez†	247 Cal. Rptr. 3d 850	211
2010	Kevin R. v. Superior Court†	191 Cal. App. 4th 676	183
2000	Damon v. Ocean Hills Journalism Club	102 Cal. Rptr. 2d 205	164
2003	In Re Luke M.	132 Cal. Rptr. 2d 907	160
2017	Bigler-Engler v. Breg, Inc.†	7 Cal. App. 5th 276	136
1995	In Re Marriage of Haines	33 Cal. App. 4th 277	110
2010	People v. Hernandez	183 Cal. App. 4th 1327	107
2002	Akers v. County of San Diego	116 Cal. Rptr. 2d 602	107
2006	Mann v. Quality Old Time Service, Inc.	42 Cal. Rptr. 3d 607	102
2008	Cardinal Health 301, Inc. v. Tyco Electronics Corp.	169 Cal. App. 4th 116	99
2001	Chavez v. Mendoza	114 Cal. Rptr. 2d 825	99
2012	San Diego County Health & Human Services Agency v. Y.M.†	207 Cal. App. 4th 892	94
2010	People v. Butler	187 Cal. App. 4th 998	92
2000	People v. Superior Court†	80 Cal. App. 4th 1305	85

Showing the 15 most-cited of 231 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 Judith Lynnette Ondrasik Haller on?: Judith Lynnette Ondrasik Haller is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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32 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).