How do judges of the Supreme Court of California reach the bench?

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

Supreme Court of California / Joined 1923 / Served to 1926

Louis W. Myers

Justice, Supreme Court of California

Louis W. Myers was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California, who joined the court in 1923. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1872 · age 154
Tenure: 1923–1926 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1923	Supreme Court of California	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Myers authored 74 published opinions for the court (1922–1925), plus 13 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Reid (152 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. 1 of these was attributed to Myers 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
1924	People v. Reid	232 P. 457	152
1923	See v. North American Accident Insurance	213 P. 42	152
1922	Mar Shee v. Maryland Assurance Corp.	210 P. 269	130
1923	Hotaling v. Superior Court	217 P. 73	103
1924	People v. Mendez	223 P. 65	83
1924	Hotaling v. Hotaling	224 P. 455	81
1923	Tarpey v. McClure	213 P. 983	74
1924	Garvin v. Chambers· Dissent	232 P. 696	70
1923	Palmer v. Tschudy	218 P. 36	70
1925	People v. Monterey Fish Products Co.	234 P. 398	67
1925	Estate of Shay	237 P. 1079	66
1923	In Re Estate of Relph	221 P. 361	66
1924	Dewhirst v. Leopold· Dissent	229 P. 30	63
1923	Kafka v. Bozio	218 P. 753	60
1923	Gett v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.	221 P. 376	55

Showing the 15 most-cited of 94 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 Supreme Court of California reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Louis W. Myers on?: Louis W. Myers was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California.

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3 years on the Supreme Court of California. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).