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 1990 / Active

Kenneth Rodney Yegan

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Kenneth Rodney Yegan is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 1990. He previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Ventura. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1990 · 35 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Superior Court of California, County of Ventura	–	–
1990	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of California-Santa Barbara		1969
University of the Pacific		1972

Judicial Record

In our data, Yegan authored 398 published opinions for the court (1986–2019), plus 25 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Derek W. v. David W. (205 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. 178 of these were attributed to Yegan 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
1999	Derek W. v. David W.†	73 Cal. App. 4th 823	205
2012	Ventura County Human Services Agency v. Frank B.†	209 Cal. App. 4th 635	162
2014	Santa Barbara County Child Welfare Services v. Jasmin R.†	230 Cal. App. 4th 219	156
1997	People v. Humphrey	58 Cal. App. 4th 809	143
2014	Taylor v. Nabors Drilling USA, LP†	222 Cal. App. 4th 1228	124
1992	Unzueta v. Ocean View School District	6 Cal. App. 4th 1689	106
2004	People v. Lopez†	119 Cal. App. 4th 132	101
1998	Estate of Gilkison	77 Cal. Rptr. 2d 463	89
2017	People v. Sperling†	219 Cal. Rptr. 3d 570	86
2012	People v. Arauz†	210 Cal. App. 4th 1394	82
2005	Calcaterra v. Badakhsh†	132 Cal. App. 4th 28	78
2012	People v. Clayburg†	211 Cal. App. 4th 86	76
1996	Bradbury v. Superior Court	49 Cal. App. 4th 1108	74
2013	The People v. Culbert†	218 Cal. App. 4th 184	72
1997	Hubbard v. Superior Court	78 Cal. Rptr. 2d 819	71

Showing the 15 most-cited of 426 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 Kenneth Rodney Yegan on?: Kenneth Rodney Yegan is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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35 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).