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 1938 / Served to 1965

Lloyd E. Griffin

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Lloyd E. Griffin was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1938. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1895–1978
Tenure: 1938–1965 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1938	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Griffin authored 1,179 published opinions for the court (1931–1970), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: People v. Torres (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. 279 of these were attributed to Griffin 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
1950	People v. Torres	98 Cal. App. 2d 189	67
1955	Smith v. Peterson	131 Cal. App. 2d 241	61
1950	La Jolla Casa deManana v. Hopkins	219 P.2d 871	57
1948	People v. Houser	85 Cal. App. 2d 686	56
1950	People Ex Rel. Department of Public Works v. McCullough	223 P.2d 37	53
1946	Dalley v. Williams	73 Cal. App. 2d 427	49
1951	Lee v. Hensley	103 Cal. App. 2d 697	47
1939	Stub v. Harrison	35 Cal. App. 2d 685	46
1945	Bastanchury v. Times-Mirror Co.	68 Cal. App. 2d 217	44
1939	Gray v. Robinson	33 Cal. App. 2d 177	43
1960	People v. Galceran	178 Cal. App. 2d 312	42
1952	People v. Grimes	248 P.2d 130	42
1938	Strandt v. Cannon	29 Cal. App. 2d 509	42
1938	Chichester v. Seymour	28 Cal. App. 2d 696	42
1954	Wells Truckways, Ltd. v. Cebrian	122 Cal. App. 2d 666	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,182 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 Lloyd E. Griffin on?: Lloyd E. Griffin was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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26 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).