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 1963 / Served to 1985

Kenneth Andreen

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Kenneth Andreen was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1963. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1924 · age 102
Tenure: 1963–1985 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1963	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1980	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Andreen authored 56 published opinions for the court (1978–1984), plus 6 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Price (69 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. 21 of these were attributed to Andreen 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
1984	People v. Price	151 Cal. App. 3d 803	69
1981	Baldwin v. Zoradi	123 Cal. App. 3d 275	53
1984	Braun v. City of Taft	154 Cal. App. 3d 332	40
1981	People v. Carrasco	118 Cal. App. 3d 936	39
1983	Vossler v. Richards Manufacturing Co.	143 Cal. App. 3d 952	37
1983	Roberts v. Gulf Oil Corp.	147 Cal. App. 3d 770	33
1983	People v. Ford	145 Cal. App. 3d 985	33
1983	Soldano v. O'DANIELS	141 Cal. App. 3d 443	29
1978	Kaslavage v. West Kern County Water District	84 Cal. App. 3d 529	29
1981	People v. Berry	117 Cal. App. 3d 184	28
1982	People v. Bailes· Dissent†	129 Cal. App. 3d 265	27
1982	People v. Prysock· Dissent†	127 Cal. App. 3d 972	26
1983	Guardians of Turlock's Integrity v. Turlock City Council	149 Cal. App. 3d 584	24
1981	Ford v. State of California· Concurrence†	116 Cal. App. 3d 507	23
1981	Burkhart v. Department of Motor Vehicles	124 Cal. App. 3d 99	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 68 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 Kenneth Andreen on?: Kenneth Andreen was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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21 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).