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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1968 / Served to 1990

Lloyd T. Hanson

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Lloyd T. Hanson was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1968–1990 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hanson authored 323 published opinions for the court (1941–1990), plus 3 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Miller v. National Broadcasting Co. (119 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. 13 of these were attributed to Hanson 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
1986	Miller v. National Broadcasting Co.	187 Cal. App. 3d 1463	119
1989	Stratton v. First National Life Insurance	210 Cal. App. 3d 1071	114
1978	Brody v. Montalbano	87 Cal. App. 3d 725	93
1942	Washburn v. Washburn	49 Cal. App. 2d 581	86
1983	Snipes v. City of Bakersfield	145 Cal. App. 3d 861	71
1983	San Gabriel Tribune v. Superior Court	143 Cal. App. 3d 762	70
1987	In Re Debra M.	189 Cal. App. 3d 1032	61
1984	County of Los Angeles v. Surety Insurance	162 Cal. App. 3d 58	56
1941	Monahan v. Department of Water & Power	48 Cal. App. 2d 746	55
1976	Young v. Redman	55 Cal. App. 3d 827	54
1989	Dyer v. Northbrook Property & Casualty Insurance	210 Cal. App. 3d 1540	53
1981	Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services v. Hazel L.	124 Cal. App. 3d 1031	53
1990	Wright v. City of Los Angeles· Concurrence†	219 Cal. App. 3d 318	52
1986	People v. Price	184 Cal. App. 3d 1405	46
1986	Sagaser v. McCarthy	176 Cal. App. 3d 288	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 331 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 T. Hanson on?: Lloyd T. Hanson was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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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).