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 2010 / Active

Louis Robert Keane Mauro

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Louis Robert Keane Mauro is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2010. He previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento	–	–
2010	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of California-Santa Barbara	with high honors	1983
University of California-Davis		1987

Judicial Record

In our data, Mauro authored 27 published opinions for the court (2011–2019), plus 1 dissent and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Allen v. City of Sacramento (434 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. 32 of these were attributed to Mauro 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
2015	Allen v. City of Sacramento†	234 Cal. App. 4th 41	434
2012	Okasaki v. City of Elk Grove†	203 Cal. App. 4th 1043	58
2015	County of Sonoma v. Cohen· Concurrence†	235 Cal. App. 4th 42	45
2012	Rand v. Board of Psychology†	206 Cal. App. 4th 565	35
2012	Outfitter Properties, LLC v. Wildlife Conservation Board†	207 Cal. App. 4th 237	28
2016	Picerne Construction Corp. v. Castellino Villas†	244 Cal. App. 4th 1201	20
2015	Danser v. Public Employees' Retirement System†	240 Cal. App. 4th 885	19
2012	Juror Number One v. Superior Court· Concurrence†	206 Cal. App. 4th 854	19
2013	DeVore v. Department of the California Highway Patrol· Concurrence†	221 Cal. App. 4th 454	18
2015	Moore v. William Jessup University†	243 Cal. App. 4th 427	17
2011	Seaton v. Seaton†	200 Cal. App. 4th 800	16
2018	Estill v. Cnty. of Shasta†	236 Cal. Rptr. 3d 191	14
2018	Glaviano v. Sacramento City Unified Sch. Dist.†	231 Cal. Rptr. 3d 849	13
2012	People v. Dyser†	202 Cal. App. 4th 1015	12
2017	Rossetta v. CitiMortgage, Inc.· Concurrence†	227 Cal. Rptr. 3d 598	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 32 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 Louis Robert Keane Mauro on?: Louis Robert Keane Mauro is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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15 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).